What does your desktop look like??

[5614]

come on guys... what game is good is just a matter or opinion... its pointless arguing about it.

 

at the same time - halo does rock!!!

[JaKiri]

unreals engine is so much better than deus ex IMO.

 

Deus Ex runs on the Unreal Engine.

[Artorius]

Im still an avid rtcw player....wolfenstein is the real king of the show...

[JaKiri]

ET has punkbuster, thus it loses by default.

[bloodhound]

Deus Ex runs on the Unreal Engine.

AH, u got me there. Y didnt u tell me before. goes and plays deus ex again. would love playing half life 2 or doom3 but i dont think my hardware can support it hehe.

[Guest lumpy_chunk]

sometimes you can keep it clean by puting stuff in a folder unlike my brother,Steven his desk top is full of unneded stuff like,a file called "chippy.wav" well that is all or not.

[ecoli]

This is what my desktop looks like:

 

[Dave]

Ah, good old win 98

[Tesseract]

Isnt that 2000?

[Rasori]

JaKiri, what's wrong with Punkbuster? Unless you're a hacker, it doesn't do anything bad.

[5614]

ecoli's desktop looks like win98 with office 2000

[Dave]

ecoli's desktop looks like win98 with office 2000

 

That's what I though. However, I was rather drunk when I posted that so I guess I could've been wrong

[Guest bkronbergs]

This is my desktop, with pre-beta Longhorn!! Ho ho ho, BitTorrent forever! Beta is released Feb. isnt it?

[ed84c]

wtf is longhorn?

[Sayonara]

The next incarnation of Windows OS.

 

Please try to use google instead of hijacking threads with posts that begin "wtf is..."

[Guest bkronbergs]

well said sayonara, and SURELY everyone knows that the next microsoft OS release is codenamed longhorn!! anyway, what do people think of the look of it?

[Sayonara]

I think it was very mean of them not to make XP that shiny.

 

Apparently Longhorn will require a gfx card that's better than entry-level, so as far as our pretty desktops go it might not have the impact we'd expect for a while (although this will just help drive Moore's Law in the end, so who cares?)

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/13/2351247&tid=201

[Guest bkronbergs]

good point sayonara, but by the time Longhorn is released properley, EVERYONE will have the right specs, as computers just wont be sold with the wrong ones, Microsoft I am sure would tip the manufacturers, cos they will want everyone who can use it on Longhorn. But Apple's Tiger release this year I am awaiting eagerly!

[Sayonara]

I was going to say "don't overlook the people who buy the components and build their own", but of course most people in that category spend as much as they can on gfx cards.

 

A lot of package retailers like Tiny, PC World etc sell sub-standard components, and it's their customers who will be worst off.

[ecoli]

ecoli's desktop looks like win98 with office 2000

 

Windows ME with office 2000, actually.

 

Winodws Longhorn!!!. What a stupid name!!!

[budullewraagh]

um, "bill gates satan inc"

wtf man?

[5614]

how do you get a copy of loghorn beta?

 

on the sys properties it says its alpha build?

 

^ what bud said.

[Sayonara]

He quite clearly called it "pre-beta", which is what an alpha build is.

 

As for bud's question, those are obviously the name/company entries he gave when he installed it.

[Guest bkronbergs]

Sayonara, thanks for answering the questions posed! As for where I got the Alpha build from, I got it from BitTorrent, so try and check that one out!!

[bloodhound]

I wonder if my laptops ati mr 9000 igp can handle it. I might try the beta later on. Is there any danger to my hardware by trying out longhorn?

 

edit: hmm i notice they have included window transparencies and other nice effects. but most likely ill just get rid of all of them so as to improve performance