Recent content by Skanks

Yes it's innocent till proven guilty here too. We got it off the British legal system the same as the USA did, along with Jury trials.

They aren't a seperate nation. They are part of the United Kingdom which is .uk

What about countries where prostitution is legal?

They used to have a nuclear power plant down there. They shut it and shipped it back though.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights That's actually part of the Council of Europe. Though the UK is part of the EU as well.

We have the same ratings on games in New Zealand as movies. I think it works a lot better (plus you get the big red R-18 sticker on the box so it's bloody obvious). Though it is illegal for a shop to sell restricted games to a minor here, parents can still make a judgement call and buy them...

Wasn't that AMD saying GPU physics is dead until DirectX 11? That's not the same thing at all.

Are you using VGA or DVI?

Shouldn't he stick the Texture Filter Quality to High Quality not High Performance? Personally I use the ingame settings if they are available, and override them (or enhance them) on a per game basis.

Standard enables driver bugfixes and optimisations for specific games. The high? setting however can lead to image corruption.

Well technically yes ;) But that's the only way the numbering system makes sense :p Either that or they just went batty.

The X is the Roman numeral for 10, so an X800 is a 10800, and a X1800 is a 11800, they continued the scheme ;)

I'd like to see a 6.1 or 7.1 speaker version of that Creative DTS-610? (DTS ES perhaps, that does discrete 6.1)

I miss the good old days, they don't make Wing Commander games anymore :(

My partner thinks I should be impressed when she spends $150 on underwear because if it wasn't on sale it would of cost $300....... so it's all fair ;)