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#1 eitremn
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i was wondering if there were any games out that let you take the role of a mercenary/bounty hunter. where you'd get your own ship to customize and you could travel around and find different contracts to pick up. something like that.

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#2 eitremn
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thanks guys! yes i meant a pci-e x16 slot. it was late last night and i was tired, lol.
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#3 eitremn
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maybe this is a dumb question, but i can't seem to find an answer anywhere. can a vCard that is PCI-E 2.0 be used in a motherboard that only has a 1.0 slot??

what i'm currently looking at is the

HP Elite m9200t series

the 8800GT is an option to choose, but is $60 more then buying it myself at, say, newegg. so i'm wondering if i'll be able to just get a low end card with the computer and then buy the 8800GT later on. when i look at the tech specs for the computer it doesn't mention what the motherboard is or if it has a pci-e 2.0 slot or not.

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Im looking for a new computer on a budget, should I get 2 lower end video cards or 1 higher end video card?

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#5 eitremn
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next question then, what do you recommend for a vCard in a $1200ish system? i was thinking of going with an 8600, possibly dual 8600's. should i go for dual lesser quality cards or a single higher quality card?
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#6 eitremn
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Is the laptop good?

trying to stay around the $1200 range. I want to be able to game with this. I'm looking forward to playing Age of Conan when that comes out. is this machine equipped to handle age of conan??

any suggestions on what else i could get around the $1200 range for a laptop? i'd really like to get a laptop if i can. but if i have to i'll stick with a desktop...

thanks in advance!

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#7 eitremn
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i can't seem to find any news on the subject. but what the hell is the deal with the shortage of these things? this is getting rediculous.
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#8 eitremn
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[QUOTE="O_OdazX_X"]I learnt on Visual Basic, very easy to learn. Or Pascal is supposed to be easy too. About the freeness...improvise:)xaos
Visual Basic teaches extremely bad programming practices. If you are just hacking around for your own fun, that is fine, but if you plan on software engineering as a career, VB programmers are always the first ones outsourced and offshored, or replaced by $10/hr college students. I don't really care for Java, personally, though that is just a personal distaste for various aspects of it. Pascal is not a bad language, and is designed for teaching. However, as a result, it hides certain complexities that are important in order to focus on teaching algorithms, data structures, etc. Also, it is not object-oriented, which is a pretty big omission in modern languages. C++ is, IMO, pretty essential for any serious programmer. It offers a mature, feature-rich language, but as a compiled language, is far more performant than interpreted languages like Java and C#, as well as supporting inline assembly langauge for areas that need extremely optimized performance. It is, of course, object-oriented, and that allows a lot of pretty elegant solutions to be developed in it (polymorphism is cool as hell). Another key benefit of C++ is that it exposes a lot of the underlying complexities that other langauges try to hide. This means it is much easier to see when your code is going to behave in a way that is technically correct but performs horribly and generally causes programmers to be a lot more aware of how their code is actually executed.

thank you sir, you seem to be knowledgeable about such things. how about a compiler to use? which do you suggest?

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#9 eitremn
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anyone know of a good free compiler? basically what i want this for is to practice learning how to code. c++ is preferable as this is a good language to start i think right? or if there is a better one to start learning let me know. thanks for any help!!

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#10 eitremn
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the fact that they didn't even have to forfeit the win is absolutely rediculous. you cannot sit there and honestly say that this was the only incident, why the hell would the patriots think to themselves hmm... we got the jets coming up, we better find some way of cheating or we're gonna be in trouble this week, pff yeah right. it was just normal gametime stuff for them. i believe it absolutely taints the patriots, and it does a bit of explaining how Tom Brady and company have turned into such a potent offense. it's easy to put up all those points when you know what the defense is going to do.