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I find it really weird that you guys have such a crazy mac culture in Europe. Not that there's any reason why you wouldn't but I guess it always felt like a US phenomenon....more specifically a Brooklyn phenomenon. But then that just be my ethnocentrism showing!

mostly admin but I do scripting when necessary

Mostly server network stuff for an IT consulting company.

I have owned the Blackberry 7280, Palm Treo 300 and the original iPhone. I consider myself a power user, I had every application and mod available for my Blackberry and Palm but the iPhone blew them both away. Why? Forget the novelty of the touchscreen. Ignore the appstore, because when I owned the iPhone it didn't exist. Three things that instantly come into my head are 1. The browser was usable - After using smart phones for 6 years with crippled browsers, this was huge. 2. Visual Voicemail - Something everyone thought of at least once was integrated into the OS perfectly. 3. I could play music on it and the interface wasn't a joke. At the time the iPhone was more a toy but then again all phones except for Blackberries and the Treo were toys then. At my last job I had to get a Blackberry Bold (which I still use today) because the company had unlimited minutes on Verizon and I needed to be able to connect to enterprise email on Exchange. In the past couple years a lot has changed and being in IT I've seen first hand the iPhone become a valid corporate phone. I love the new HTC phones and android. I jailbroke my iPhone, something I probably wouldn't do with the appstore today, so I understand the opensource sentiment. If I had a reason to spend $500 on a new phone I would probably buy one of these. Unfortunately this doesn't change the fact that apple put their dick out on the line and made the form factor associated with smart phones today the standard. To keep it short, yes, that absolutely is debatable. I've worked with fashion design and video/audio firms and they exclusively use Apple hardware and software. Final Cut Pro? Industry standard and mac only. At 7/9 sound studios ProTools was on OSX. Keep in mind that Apple also makes http://www.apple.com/xserve/. I've worked on many of them and they're really fantastic, especially in tandem with Mac client computers. Also, in NYC, as with other major US cities, you can walk about 15 blocks in any direction and take care of Mac issues instead of having to wait 2 weeks turn around for your HP or Alienware. You can install Windows on any Intel mac. For some Mac/iPhone is undoubtedly a fashion statement but do you know who those people are? Those are the people who start pointless flame wars with PC users about what's better. They're as right in their opinions as the people who discredit the significant influence of Apple in the computer world. I'm not going to make fun of someone with an HP or MacBook because I realize that it's just a computer and a computer is a tool. Looking at someones computer can you really stereotype their reason for owning it? What about the guy using a Mac because he works in publishing and needs to be able to use Quark, which his company has been using for the past 8 years and is the format all their files are in? How about the kid with a EEEPC who needed a cheap solution to take notes in his college class? They're just devices for accomplishing necessary tasks. Discriminating against, of all things, a brand is just what advertisers want you to do. They want you to associate their product with Right and Wrong. It says more about you than it does about the people you're insulting. Do I think it's silly that there are 15 year olds who use a $3000 Macbook Pro for browsing Facebook? Of course. Is it equally silly to have a $5000 gaming laptop so you can play Crysis on max settings 3 times a year when you're on vacation. Yup. Conclusion? There are a lot of stupid/silly people in the world who spend their money in very inefficient ways, creating jobs for people like us who use more scrutiny in our purchases.

A lot of the random Mac shit talking is antagonistic for no reason. If you don't care then don't care but why shit on a thread on a small forum between people who are interested in the topic? Especially when you're dropping gems like "fuck macs" and then calling out people for their choices. What excites me most about Steam on Mac is that young kids who live in Mac households now have a whole new platform open to them. Fuck both sides of stupid Mac/PC bullshit.

Have any of you ever been to the "show you around the office - meet and talk to employees" stage of an interview and not get the job? I feel like that would just be cruel.

I don't have a mac anymore so I have no horse in this race but I've always been a computer/gaming enthusiast so in that way I find it interesting. Though there is a bit of schadenfreude watching the mac-hating/PC-fanboi community lose one of its standard pillars of hate.

8 hours? wtf? explain. did you get the job?

I installed all the mods and it does make a pretty significant difference. This is my first time playing it, which is weird considering I played Half-Life when it came out and was into PC gaming by then.

It seems we are on the same mission Sentura. This is the most current set of tweaks I could find so far (march 25 2010): http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-nameless- ... -with-mods

Are there any mods to bump up the graphics for DeusEx? I just googled it and the 3rd result brought me to this haha http://www.helderpinto.com/blog/persona ... d-v01.html Anything new since?

He's so very wrong. VG is one of the few existing mediums with tons of artistic potential. Relevant:

If iTunes made my homepage apple.com and installed ask toolbar I would still do it for iTunes University. edit: catchy tune

Well hopefully not anymore. The Senate just passed some semblance of health care reform an hour ago.

You should all visit America soon! You can slip and fall and we'll fix your leg instead of burying you alive

I've thought about buying porn but it feels so dirty in a 70's way. I think I would only do it if a girl was involved in the process

Nah I don't think there's anything wrong with watching something that someone else pirated.

Just curious. Also, almost everything you could pirate offers some kind of demo so I didn't make "Yes but I'll eventually support what I pirate if I use it." If you pirate you pirate, no points for promising to make it up one day Sometimes: Convenience I think the price is unfair Only small or obscure things Only games, Only movies, Only screeners, Only albums, Only songs, Only magazines, Only ebooks, etc etc _______________ I'm really more interested in the people who no longer do it. How long has this been your opinion? Did you start to find it unethical? Did working in the game industry change your opinion? Is the hassle just not worth it when you? Is it for the media/box? Was your ISP threatening to cut off service? How strong is your conviction? What else?

Not to thread hijack but does anyone else lament the decline of the history channel? Everything now is either about nazis or stupid shit like STALIN VS THE ANCIENT GREEKS. A couple years ago I downloaded all the episodes of How It's Made and never looked back.

After reading that review I'm wondering....were there any other games that pulled off the "so bad it's good" thing? I've found redeeming qualities in shitty games but I'd never say the game itself was good. It's like how I enjoy watching youtube videos of Big Rigs but I would never play it myself.

Now all I want to see is 1973 Gordon Freeman. Also in honor of steam here is a 7 year old thread about how much steam sucks. http://yarbroughs.org/2003/09/13/steam-sucks/ The comments are better than the post. Coincidentally this forum is almost exactly as old as steam.

for those with no patience start at 3:17 with that magnificent cigarette lighting

FBI SPECIAL AGENT FRANCIS YORK MORGAN. PLEASE JUST CALL ME YORK. This game looks absolutely hilarious. Purchased. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8sDacMDYtk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobqLv0y-TU

TF2 on the mac is more than enough to make me happy.

insta has taken the lead