Faster speed means I CAN browse the internet. A large portion of the internet is becoming nearly unusable for dialup users, especially the ones that can only get 14.4kbps because the phone system hasn't been updated since Nixon was a president.
Why hasn't there been a study comparing people that play videogames vs. people that play football, baseball, or basketball? You know, the sports where people actually DO go out of thier way to hurt eachother. I seem to remember that the violent people in my high school weren't the geeks and gamers, they were usually the baseball players. The football players seemed to have a better handle on thier aggression, possibly because of a form of release?
Alot of these are called "Mondegreens" because of an old song that said "And I laid him on the green." was misheard as "And Lady Mondegreen."
Other examples: "Drink your milk, gotta keep 'em seperated." --Offspring (Take him out) "Hey Pac Man, What's up? Me you biznatches, wanna freebie?" --Bloodhound Gang (freebase)
Why not setup one core heavily interger optimized, and one floating point? That way you can run the FP apps like rockets, and the interger apps like lightning w/o comprimizing on either. Rather than have a long chain in the pipeline you could have paralell paths, and once an instruction is set down one path, the CPU could take the next and see if it can stick it down another path.
Instead of buying one $50 game, buy 5-10 $5-10 games. You know, games that are a year old, on clearance, etc... Sometimes you find a good game that you otherwise would have overlooked.
If 80% of those games aren't worth playing, you still end up with one that is.
Look used. GT4: $50 GT3 (used): $6 Will you have 700% more fun w/ GT4 over GT3?
That's not to say don't buy the $50 game. After all, many are well worth it. (ie: Shadow of the Colossus)
I saw a "dualdisc" version of a couple CDs, one being the NIN With Teeth album. I thought "CD and DVD content, it must be like the Sum41 CD that I bought w/ an extra DVD." It was great, the extra content was easily worth it. So I get the discs in the mail, open them up. One disc? Go to rip the CD side, pop it in my NEC 2500A, I get occasional errors on alot of the tracks. So I pop it in my 5800C (DVD-ROM), it gets a few more errors than the 2500A. Well, I have a 12x Optorite in an external enclosure, pop it in there. TONS of errors. These rip CDs fine mind you. Later I get a new stereo for my car, a nice JVC DV5100. Plays MP3s off of DVD-R media. It's excellent. I only need to carry around $0.60 worth of DVD-R disks (2) instead of thousands worth of CDs. Flip through the manual, "Do not play the CD side of dualdiscs, they do not comply with the redbook standard."...would've been nice to know about that BEFORE I bought the discs. I'm not going to buy any more of dualdisc discs. Music that won't play in my PC, my car, and my MP3 player is worthless.
I finally saw, and played a PSP. It's a nicely designed unit, but the softcase is mandatory. It looks great, and the controls are nice. If it were $150 w/game I'd probably get one. I'd have to see what games I'd want for it though. The current price point is just way too high for me though.
Current games I'm wanting: Castlevania (DS) Burnout Revenge (PS2) Advance Wars:DS (DS) Osu Tatakae Oendan (DS, Japan only)
Number of DSs that I've seen: 4, not counting demo units (managed to get them all in one place)
Number of PSPs I've seen: 0. No demo unit. Nothing. Never even saw anyone with one while waiting for someone at the airport.
When the PSP came out I said if it overcame three problems, it'd be great. Price, battery life, and durability. It's still quite expensive for a portable device, it's battery life is still quite a bit shorter than an SP or DS, and it's still fragile.
You pay $130 for a DS, and if you get a game, such as Bomberman, Meteos, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, or the soon to be released Castlevania for $30-35 and you're set. You don't need to buy any accessories.
Now, you pay $250 for a PSP, it includes a small memory stick. The games are $40-50. If you want to watch movies or listen to music you gotta break out $50-100 for a memory stick large enough to fit them.
Make sure you don't discount third party addons (ie: Play-yan, which is endorsed by Nintendo) while not discounting the need for the memory stick.
It was the best first generation Athlon motherboard out there. But Asus would not admit to actually MAKING the board at all. Why? They were afraid of Intel.
Click on the board's picture and look for the Asus name. It's usually printed quite clearly on the PCB.
You may remember the past as rosey, but I remember the FIC SD11, Asus K7M, and the Gigabyte boards as the only three available. No manufacturer wanted to piss off Intel. It took some major wins to get companies on board.
Imagine giving your kid a $100 bill and tell them to keep track of that bill for a year without losing it, spending it, or otherwise doing something bad with it. If your kid can do that, then you might look into it.
My 8 year old nephew wouldn't keep any laptop in one piece more than a week. When I was 12, I know I wouldn't. When I was 16 I would have.
Look at your kid's game consoles. Do they still work? Are all the accessories still there? Do they trash the games or take care of them? Even the ones that are a couple years old? That'll give you an indication of how they'd treat something else.
I believe we have differences in what we're trying to do. A bike can work well when running from a group, but if there is a large concentration like you say, good luck getting a bike through. Other advantages to a truck is that you can have people in the back with guns, baseball bats, and other objects (I like flamethrowers) take them out as you drive by.
I'm assuming a local town wide infestation....and no, I haven't tried to drive a truck through a crowd on arbor day. We're usually busy stacking firewood, clearing brush, and repairing fences that trees have taken out.
#7 says get out of the car and onto a bike. Bikes can be tipped over easily and offer no offensive value. Now a truck with a suitably large bumper offers both offensive and defensive value. What better way to take out a dozen zombies in the road way than just making sure you got both hands on the wheel and preparing for a slight, momentary, loss of traction as you travel over crushed re-dead bodies?
As Interstate '76 said: "Don't get out of the car, never get out of the car." (tactic worked well in many places of GTA3)
If you treat it as a poker table, where for someone to win, someone else has to lose, there will always be a loser and that person will not be happy with you for being a winner.
If you treat it as a symbiotic relationship, then wanting respect is a healthy thing.
An example is my relationship with our field service dept. I'm in the engineering dept, but I help them out by giving them information and teaching them how to solve problems. I have gained respect from them, and they will gain respect from thier customers without costing anyone any respect. I also ask for information on existing situations, which they give me. I respect them for this. We have a mutual respect for eachother.
Treating respect as a teeter-totter only gets you up so far, lifting the board off of the bar takes everyone higher.
I was considering what could cause the deep fryer to become destroyed and came up with only one possible conclusion:
It was "The One Laptop". Only a deep fryer could really destroy the laptop being that it was the evil that the laptop was created from. And when the laptop was cast into the fryer the fryer erupted from the critical mass of evil and proceeded to destroy everything around it.
How the hell do you destroy a deep fryer? I worked at a restraunt, of all the stuff in the place the deep fryer was like a burning pit from hell. It was something that CAUSED destruction but never took it!
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Faster speed means I CAN browse the internet. A large portion of the internet is becoming nearly unusable for dialup users, especially the ones that can only get 14.4kbps because the phone system hasn't been updated since Nixon was a president.
Alright, I just modded it down. Where's my pizza? ...oh wait, posting here just removed the moderation didn't it?
Why hasn't there been a study comparing people that play videogames vs. people that play football, baseball, or basketball? You know, the sports where people actually DO go out of thier way to hurt eachother. I seem to remember that the violent people in my high school weren't the geeks and gamers, they were usually the baseball players. The football players seemed to have a better handle on thier aggression, possibly because of a form of release?
Alot of these are called "Mondegreens" because of an old song that said "And I laid him on the green." was misheard as "And Lady Mondegreen."
Other examples:
"Drink your milk, gotta keep 'em seperated." --Offspring (Take him out)
"Hey Pac Man, What's up? Me you biznatches, wanna freebie?" --Bloodhound Gang (freebase)
Why not setup one core heavily interger optimized, and one floating point? That way you can run the FP apps like rockets, and the interger apps like lightning w/o comprimizing on either. Rather than have a long chain in the pipeline you could have paralell paths, and once an instruction is set down one path, the CPU could take the next and see if it can stick it down another path.
I've done this in the past:
Instead of buying one $50 game, buy 5-10 $5-10 games. You know, games that are a year old, on clearance, etc... Sometimes you find a good game that you otherwise would have overlooked.
If 80% of those games aren't worth playing, you still end up with one that is.
Look used.
GT4: $50
GT3 (used): $6
Will you have 700% more fun w/ GT4 over GT3?
That's not to say don't buy the $50 game. After all, many are well worth it. (ie: Shadow of the Colossus)
My gmail account has some 827MB worth of crap on it. I'm filling it at pretty close to the growing rate.
Remember that 1GB HD that you'd never fill up?
The 32MB of RAM that was workstation levels?
The fast 14.4k modem?
I saw a "dualdisc" version of a couple CDs, one being the NIN With Teeth album. I thought "CD and DVD content, it must be like the Sum41 CD that I bought w/ an extra DVD." It was great, the extra content was easily worth it. So I get the discs in the mail, open them up. One disc? Go to rip the CD side, pop it in my NEC 2500A, I get occasional errors on alot of the tracks. So I pop it in my 5800C (DVD-ROM), it gets a few more errors than the 2500A. Well, I have a 12x Optorite in an external enclosure, pop it in there. TONS of errors. These rip CDs fine mind you. Later I get a new stereo for my car, a nice JVC DV5100. Plays MP3s off of DVD-R media. It's excellent. I only need to carry around $0.60 worth of DVD-R disks (2) instead of thousands worth of CDs. Flip through the manual, "Do not play the CD side of dualdiscs, they do not comply with the redbook standard." ...would've been nice to know about that BEFORE I bought the discs. I'm not going to buy any more of dualdisc discs. Music that won't play in my PC, my car, and my MP3 player is worthless.
I finally saw, and played a PSP. It's a nicely designed unit, but the softcase is mandatory. It looks great, and the controls are nice. If it were $150 w/game I'd probably get one. I'd have to see what games I'd want for it though. The current price point is just way too high for me though.
Current games I'm wanting:
Castlevania (DS)
Burnout Revenge (PS2)
Advance Wars:DS (DS)
Osu Tatakae Oendan (DS, Japan only)
Number of DSs that I've seen:
4, not counting demo units (managed to get them all in one place)
Number of PSPs I've seen:
0. No demo unit. Nothing. Never even saw anyone with one while waiting for someone at the airport.
When the PSP came out I said if it overcame three problems, it'd be great. Price, battery life, and durability. It's still quite expensive for a portable device, it's battery life is still quite a bit shorter than an SP or DS, and it's still fragile.
You pay $130 for a DS, and if you get a game, such as Bomberman, Meteos, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, or the soon to be released Castlevania for $30-35 and you're set. You don't need to buy any accessories.
Now, you pay $250 for a PSP, it includes a small memory stick. The games are $40-50. If you want to watch movies or listen to music you gotta break out $50-100 for a memory stick large enough to fit them.
Make sure you don't discount third party addons (ie: Play-yan, which is endorsed by Nintendo) while not discounting the need for the memory stick.
Do I hate the PSP? No. Will I buy a PSP? No.
See, I can make these jokes because I'm RED and my dad is SAD. We've been through it. We've earned the right.
Why would MS offer a job to Equivilent Series Resistance? You can get that from any capacitor on the market for fractions of a penny!
And what kind of sick geek of a parent would name thier kid Root Mean Square?
It was the best first generation Athlon motherboard out there. But Asus would not admit to actually MAKING the board at all. Why? They were afraid of Intel.
Here's a link to help you remember:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=1153
Click on the board's picture and look for the Asus name. It's usually printed quite clearly on the PCB.
You may remember the past as rosey, but I remember the FIC SD11, Asus K7M, and the Gigabyte boards as the only three available. No manufacturer wanted to piss off Intel. It took some major wins to get companies on board.
"Do you know what the chain of command is here? It's the chain I go get and beat you with to show you who's in ruttin' command here."
...is blue...
Imagine giving your kid a $100 bill and tell them to keep track of that bill for a year without losing it, spending it, or otherwise doing something bad with it. If your kid can do that, then you might look into it.
My 8 year old nephew wouldn't keep any laptop in one piece more than a week. When I was 12, I know I wouldn't. When I was 16 I would have.
Look at your kid's game consoles. Do they still work? Are all the accessories still there? Do they trash the games or take care of them? Even the ones that are a couple years old? That'll give you an indication of how they'd treat something else.
I believe we have differences in what we're trying to do. A bike can work well when running from a group, but if there is a large concentration like you say, good luck getting a bike through. Other advantages to a truck is that you can have people in the back with guns, baseball bats, and other objects (I like flamethrowers) take them out as you drive by.
...and no, I haven't tried to drive a truck through a crowd on arbor day. We're usually busy stacking firewood, clearing brush, and repairing fences that trees have taken out.
I'm assuming a local town wide infestation.
#7 says get out of the car and onto a bike. Bikes can be tipped over easily and offer no offensive value. Now a truck with a suitably large bumper offers both offensive and defensive value. What better way to take out a dozen zombies in the road way than just making sure you got both hands on the wheel and preparing for a slight, momentary, loss of traction as you travel over crushed re-dead bodies?
As Interstate '76 said:
"Don't get out of the car, never get out of the car."
(tactic worked well in many places of GTA3)
Respect does not have to be a zero-sum scenario.
If you treat it as a poker table, where for someone to win, someone else has to lose, there will always be a loser and that person will not be happy with you for being a winner.
If you treat it as a symbiotic relationship, then wanting respect is a healthy thing.
An example is my relationship with our field service dept. I'm in the engineering dept, but I help them out by giving them information and teaching them how to solve problems. I have gained respect from them, and they will gain respect from thier customers without costing anyone any respect. I also ask for information on existing situations, which they give me. I respect them for this. We have a mutual respect for eachother.
Treating respect as a teeter-totter only gets you up so far, lifting the board off of the bar takes everyone higher.
It's in the Duke Nukem Forever credits, the Infinium Phantom port atleast.
I was considering what could cause the deep fryer to become destroyed and came up with only one possible conclusion:
It was "The One Laptop". Only a deep fryer could really destroy the laptop being that it was the evil that the laptop was created from. And when the laptop was cast into the fryer the fryer erupted from the critical mass of evil and proceeded to destroy everything around it.
(apologies to Tolkien, Oppenheimer, and Jackson)
Drain the grease, put in new stuff. You're good to go. :)
How the hell do you destroy a deep fryer? I worked at a restraunt, of all the stuff in the place the deep fryer was like a burning pit from hell. It was something that CAUSED destruction but never took it!
Mod parent up. Mod grandparent down.
You forgot to take the $0.30 it costs Apple to actually be able to charge customers.