Let me guess, you are from LA? Because that ignorant passive-aggressive comment is typical of someone who is from LA . I once had a person tell me that I didn't have a clue how the world works because I am not from LA.

Burning the incense helps it's user experience Mushin, "the mind without mind". In this state of "no-mindness", a person's mind is not fixed or occupied by thought or emotion and thus open to everything.

we are legion...

I can't deal with people from Los Angeles. I often hear people extolling the benefits of living in LA but as a person not from LA, I haven't encountered one yet that doesn't absolutely annoy the fuck out of me when they speak.

This is my favorite game to play while listening to music...

He seems more like a script kiddie then a real hacker. He used some social engineering, maybe cracked some passwords, and talked a big game for sure, but most likely his exploits were given to him by the hackers he knew. They were using him as "just the face" of the operation.

I really don't get what the excitement is all about. My PC can already do all this.

Well what do you know. It looks like the game you are talking about is called "Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction". It also looks like a fairly decent game... I'll have to keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the heads up!

I think a lot of the gameplay in kz4 consists of scripted events, a-la half life 2, except on rails. For example, on the scene on the roof, the cpu takes over when you get to a spot and makes you jump off, grab the rope, and fly across the city. When your character lets go of the rope, user can control the game…

Assuming they don't retire the old online service...

An Aliens TRPG would be epic. Starship Troopers : Terran Ascendancy is one of my all time favorite PC games. I would love to see an Aliens game that followed the same formula and put you in command of a single platoon of Marines and their support vehicles, allowing you to level up and upgrade your squad members with…

Oh, I see. The majority of the pods made, and the only ones that I have hands on experience with, were the boxy Tesla I systems; the old TI pods only had 2 monitors and use mostly off the shelf parts. Unfortunately the Virtual World by my house closed down before they rolled out the oval Tesla II systems.

Why would a VM have to emulate a specific nvidia card?

You will save money buying a new machine based solely off the Pentium 4's power consumption. Over the course of a typical machine's lifespan, you will spend more on power then hardware if you run a Pentium 4.

Or they could just get a virtual machine, and run it on whatever hardware they want.

Like I said, high end or specialized parts are still worth some money. You might be able to get 20-30$ for that video card...

1) Build a beowulf cluster

Bungie started out as a developer for mac...

Why, for fucks sake, would I play a first person shooter on a weak ass iPad?

Or, get a 4 button trackball and map one button to walk forward and one button to jump, and you will be able to play any 1st person shooter ever made with only 2 fingers on 1 hand.