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Case in point; In your January 2008 issue, editor-in-chief states in his Gears of War review that his “home clunker” PC, outfitted with 2GB of RAM and a GeForce 8800, “barely ran it” I find this odd, because my machine, which sports almost identical stats (2G8 RAM, GeForce 8800GTS, Intel Core 2 2.4GHz CPU) runs the game almost exclusively at 60-pius frames per second, all at 1680×1050 resolution with the highest possible detail settings. Don’t you people even bother to play these games on more than one machine?

Don’t get me wrong, though - I’m not some idiotic Xbox 360 fanboy trying to push for a perfect review of Gears Cm Just pointing out something that seems odd to me. It’s good that you guys don’t get stoned on the massive hype that some of these games push, and I think it shouid stay that way-Complaints aside, I’m enjoying the last few issues of my free six-month trial of GFW….

Keep up the (mostly) good work!

You know what’s sad? This is my first despite the fact that I’ve been a loyal reader since the days of Dune II and WarCroft II: Tides of Darkness (heck. I’ve even looked up the magazine’s Wikipedia entry). So, why now? I’ve got so many things that I’d like to say, but after playing Counter-Strike: Source recently, I concluded that the CS Beta 4 was far superior. The graphics got better, but now the game is 1.5GB instead of 40MB, and it’s not worth wasting your time. The million-plus CS.’ Source players would probably disagree with me, but here’s what I’ve been wondering: Here I am, a professional “adult” in the work force for about four years now. Maybe games haven’t changed so much. Maybe its me that’s changed.

Maybe a marriage, a mortgage, a long commute, a government cubicle, and the process of becoming a soulless adult have al! conspired to take away that childish wonder I had when I first made it to the Xen level in Half-Life. Or when I sat in church designing WarCroft II maps on the back of the bulletin or dreamed up the ultimate weapon-versusheatsink configuration in MechWarrior 2 or got my first knife kill in CS.

But I’m not giving up on computer games yet. For the past decade, I’ve read about how PC games are dying…and they haven’t died yet. Crysis is at the top of my Christmas list this year and I dropped the cash for a DXlO-ready card despite the fact that the $400 could’ve been worth millions in my 401(k) someday, had I invested it. I guess I’m not a soulless cubicle dweller after all. Maybe my priorities are still in the right place.

I was reading wired and came across an article which says that.. a lot of americans use the internet just for fun. It made me think of internet in general and how i started using it. It was in the 90’s and i had used it only to search information, scientific articles or read episodes previews of startrek. Now, a great deal of trivia has penetrated internet. Chatting, porn, blogging and online gaming sites which steal away our time.

Internet is a waste of time, if used casually and you might never know how much time you would spend on it. Internet addiction is a serious thing.. If you’re addicted to the internet, you would spend hours on the internet increasingly to while away your time or just to hang out. It might be worthy to decide on how much time you would spend on a computer when you are hooked on to the web.

One of the earliest uses was to send and receive emails. Now, Instant messaging has hooked most people to their computers, where they type messages instead of using traditional means of communication such as a telephone or letters which were popular for over a century.

I think that internet is a tool and is of great help if used wisely and can be a waste of time if we use it aimlessly. It had helped me a lot in reseaching things which would have been impossible otherwise.

There is a considerable debate on whether goverments should regulate the web or not if you think of china as an example china has banned websites which depict content unsuitable for children. It had also banned many websites and asked search engines to not show any banned results on its website if you seach in china. Google has dropped some entries from its search results and complied with the chinese goverment. Other countries are considering banning websites which might be unsuitable for certain age groups.

What do you think of Internet in general? Do you think there should be control of information people should see or it should be allowed to all irrespective of their age,location and status?