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I don't get why people are acting so outraged, like this type of cheap, goofy cash-ins are an unprecedented attack upon the precious Star Wars legacy, rather than something that's been par for the course literally since the beginning of the franchise. Or has everyone forgotten the Holiday...

Nope, it's real, and it's the most brilliant thing since the Star Wars kid. I'm so getting it for the lab Xbox.

Well done, zegh, well done. *highfive*

Your friend is an idiot. Massive dip in consumption caused by everyone shutting off their electricity at the same time puts an enormous strain on the electric grid, and is potentially as damaging as a terrorist attack, while at the same time it nets no positive effects on the environment, unless...

Sure, if your main concern is power consumption. Real-world performance gain is going to be limited (benchmarks show substantial increase in some games, little or no increase in others), so it isn't really worth upgrading to GTX 680 if you already have a current-generation GPU. If not, then I...

External hard drives are just regular hard drives enclosed in a special case. Getting them out of the case might be a pain, but after that it's smooth sailin'.

If you can't get any computer to detect your hard drive, it's probably dead. The best you can hope for is that the part that died isn't the hard drive itself, but the little circuit board in the enclosure. If nothing else works, you can crack open the enclosure, take the hard drive out, and put...

A minor correction: my family never lived abroad for any length of time. I was born in Yugoslavia, was still a boy when it collapsed, and lived almost all of my life in the newly-independent Croatia. Which I left a year ago in order to move to the US and start my PhD there. Speaking of which...

A clarification for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with Yugoslavia (and thus more susceptible to buy into donperkan's delusions): the gas shortage was a repeat occurrence in Yugoslavia, and had nothing to do with the global oil crisis on the early 1970s. The even-odd system was...

Reading your last post it's obvious to me we have absolutely no common ground for productive debate. My conclusion is that you're either a troll or someone who lives in a separate reality from mine, one where history happened completely differently and where normal logic doesn't apply. If...

I can't believe I missed this little nugget of stupidity: This is one of the most ignorant, delusional statements I have ever read. Seriously, pick up a history book, because this is just embarrassing. One of the principal reasons why communism failed is because it patently could not create...

The very idea of either communism or national-socialism being resurrected in any shape or form in Europe or America is more horrific for me than any Lovecraftian nightmare. My grandparents lost their entire families in pogroms carried out by Nazis and their domestic collaborators. On the other...

What, kill millions of people and then collapse in chaos and war? Rapid industrial development and economic growth achieved in those countries are by no means unique in history. In fact, every developed country in the world has had similar - and often more sustained - periods of rapid growth...

So your examples of viability of alternative systems are failed multiethnic empires that wrought misery upon their own people and the entire world, before collapsing in horrific and often genocidal wars? You wouldn't happen to be a Marxist-Leninist, would you? I believe he meant pre-1945...

It took twelve years and a €60 price drop, but Romero did finally make you his bitch. Suck it down.

That would be PS2 and Xbox. The late '90s and early 2000s were still a great time for PC gaming, especially if you enjoyed shooters and strategy games. Things were a little less great if you were a fan of RPGs or adventure games, though even that twilight era saw quite a few outstanding releases.

That may have been true a few years ago, but things aren't that bad on the CPU front anymore. The understanding and use of multithreading is much better today than five years ago, when multicore CPUs only started to become prevalent. Almost all modern game engines are multithreaded, and most...

That today's games use only a fraction of the computing power available on the PC today, and that it's all due to severe limitations of console hardware. I could also compare RSX to 7900 GTX, a GPU that was already out when PS3 came out, and show how consoles were outclassed even then, but...

It was a 5850. And so what if it died? See, when your PC's GPU dies, that's actually a good thing, because it's an excuse to replace it with a newer, better GPU (in my case, a GTX 570). However, if your PS3 were to die, your only option would be to replace it with another puny PS3. :smug: No...

Let's do a quick comparison between specs of the PlayStation 3 GPU (RSX) and GF104 (GPU used in $150 GeForce GTX 460 video cards): RSX GF104 Transistors 300 million 1.95 billion Vertex pipelines 8 336 Pixel pipelines 24 336 GFLOPS 400.4 907.2...