I own a TRGpro (PalmOS) and an Asus MyPal A716 (PocketPC). It's not a fair comparison, but I'll make it anyway. This post was made on the Asus. They both have CF slots, but the Asus has drivers for far more of the hardware I'm interested in. Basically I use the Asus far more than I ever used the TRGpro.
I've got a normal AMD Athlon 2200+ with a Zalman 6000-series noise reduction heatsink and an Antec Phantom fanless power supply. On top of that, I use only passively cooled video cards (there's a 5200-or-something in there). I have one large fan moving very slowing and three newish hard drives that spin pretty quietly. I recently removed a 20Gig drive that, as it turns out, was making most of the remaining noise after I replaced the video card.
I played the beta and I won't be paying to play. I'm reminded of a saying I once heard. A dog walks on its two back legs, people who know dogs know how hard this and are impressed, people that don't know dogs take one look and say "it's not very good at it". I don't know MMOGs very well, so I see it only in comparison with general computer games and I just don't find it that fun.
The problem with wandering off is that if you get attacked (particularly if something spawns behind you) you're dead. No matter how picturesque an area is, if it has level ?? monsters, don't even bother walking through it, unless you're curious as to how it looks in black and white.
There aren't enough choices for race, class and skills. Just when you think you've put together an interesting troll shaman with skinning and leatherworking, one of your friends rocks up with a better troll shaman with skinning and leatherworking. The character development is so linear that I am frequently reminded that I'm one of many people all mindlessly doing basically the same thing. There's no way I've found to do anything truly unique and interesting. This basically just turns the game into a race to see who can become the most powerful the quickest.
"You must go on a deeply spiritual quest to a hidden cave, just follow the trail of other players going to the same cave."
I played WoW from the beginning of fileplanet's most recent stress test and I finally gave it up two days ago. Everything in the game is designed to slow you down, to the point where you spend more time travelling over the same areas again and again than actually achieving anything. In fact I found no sense of achievement after probably 60 hours of gameplay. This might be a small amount of time for a MMOG, but it's a huge amount of time to burn in a few weeks if you already have a full-time job.
I've had mixed results. Some users can't tell the difference, some have remote applications that work "better" under IE, some have moved to Mozilla. I think both Mac users I mentioned it to have switched.
That's pretty crap logic there. There's some significant weirdness in the automated vote counting. There's not reason to believe that a hand count would be wrong. By your logic we should object to anyone doing or asking for anything even once because they might bother you about it forever.
Of the 3rd-party stuff I have on mine, I use VNC the most. Other than that I use the pocket IE that's on there lots, but I'd prefer a version of Opera with decent small-screen rendering like the Symbian Series 60 product.
That's just a worldofwarcraft.com search for "linux" and therefore not especially helpful. I've never played a Windows game on my new Linux box. Does anyone have a how-to for the WineX (or whatever) thing that's been written specifically to cope with WoW (just in case there are "quirks" unique to WoW)?
How disabled? If he's one of those "disabled" people that you see up on the roof fixing tiles despite a "bad back", then this is no huge surprise. If we're talking wheelchair then I officially lament how times have changed. It used to be that wheelchair-bound geeks ran the local BBS.
The problem is that you're just guessing. You should want to KNOW one way or the other. I'm guessing that if all the weirdness was found and counted that Bush would have lost both Florida and Ohio. Prove me wrong.
I've bought 4 secondhand Game Gears and three of them have had dead speakers. Anyone know what's up with that?
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This could backfire. I've been playing it since my download finished last night and at the moment I've found nothing that makes me want to go out and buy it. In fact, I've started two characters now that have both stalled at roughly the same place. While most of my friends have pre-ordered, I'm *currently* (though this may change) recommending against purchasing the game.
I have the bookmarks at work, but you're looking for papers by Brian Fleay. I don't agree with his conclusions as to the depth of economic impact, his work on energy profit ratio (EPR) looks spot on. I have found this paper though. Key words are highlighted, the passage you should be looking at is almost at the bottom, search for "Large-scale biofuel production".
Biodiesel is a net energy loss when you look at how much energy and petrolium-based fertilisers and pesticides have to go into the system.
So is nuclear energy, when you look at the energy required for mining, refining, safe transport and disposal -- not to mention the duration for which nuclear waste is toxic.
Neither option will dig us out of a looming energy hole. Solar and wind can do it, but only if you start while you still have the energy needed to get them running.
Interestingly, the absolute number of votes between Bush and Kerry in Florida hasn't changed as the count has increased from ~1 million to ~7 million votes counted, which tends to imply an early burst of pro-Bush support rather than a clear win for Bush.
That PNG map is two thirds larger than it needs to be. Less than a minute with pngout reduces it from 14,632 to 8,839. Also, it doesn't look like the page is being served gzipped. This can be done by creating a.gz copy and having the web server software hand out whatever the browser can handle, little or no cost to the CPU. All up, the site is probably serving 50% more traffic than it need serve.
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I own a TRGpro (PalmOS) and an Asus MyPal A716 (PocketPC). It's not a fair comparison, but I'll make it anyway. This post was made on the Asus. They both have CF slots, but the Asus has drivers for far more of the hardware I'm interested in. Basically I use the Asus far more than I ever used the TRGpro.
What I'm saying is that noise related to dealing with heat is much easier to reduce compared to the noise from a hard drive.
CPU is the least of my worries.
Actually, I'm a cat person.
I played the beta and I won't be paying to play. I'm reminded of a saying I once heard. A dog walks on its two back legs, people who know dogs know how hard this and are impressed, people that don't know dogs take one look and say "it's not very good at it". I don't know MMOGs very well, so I see it only in comparison with general computer games and I just don't find it that fun.
"Found" should be "fixed", then I believe it says what it's supposed to say.
The problem with wandering off is that if you get attacked (particularly if something spawns behind you) you're dead. No matter how picturesque an area is, if it has level ?? monsters, don't even bother walking through it, unless you're curious as to how it looks in black and white.
"You must go on a deeply spiritual quest to a hidden cave, just follow the trail of other players going to the same cave."
R U GOING 2 DO ANOTHER B00K!!!!!!?????
I played WoW from the beginning of fileplanet's most recent stress test and I finally gave it up two days ago. Everything in the game is designed to slow you down, to the point where you spend more time travelling over the same areas again and again than actually achieving anything. In fact I found no sense of achievement after probably 60 hours of gameplay. This might be a small amount of time for a MMOG, but it's a huge amount of time to burn in a few weeks if you already have a full-time job.
I've had mixed results. Some users can't tell the difference, some have remote applications that work "better" under IE, some have moved to Mozilla. I think both Mac users I mentioned it to have switched.
That's pretty crap logic there. There's some significant weirdness in the automated vote counting. There's not reason to believe that a hand count would be wrong. By your logic we should object to anyone doing or asking for anything even once because they might bother you about it forever.
I have Backspace mapped to my mouse's wheel-button. A million uses, "Back" being only one of them.
Of the 3rd-party stuff I have on mine, I use VNC the most. Other than that I use the pocket IE that's on there lots, but I'd prefer a version of Opera with decent small-screen rendering like the Symbian Series 60 product.
That's just a worldofwarcraft.com search for "linux" and therefore not especially helpful. I've never played a Windows game on my new Linux box. Does anyone have a how-to for the WineX (or whatever) thing that's been written specifically to cope with WoW (just in case there are "quirks" unique to WoW)?
How disabled? If he's one of those "disabled" people that you see up on the roof fixing tiles despite a "bad back", then this is no huge surprise. If we're talking wheelchair then I officially lament how times have changed. It used to be that wheelchair-bound geeks ran the local BBS.
The problem is that you're just guessing. You should want to KNOW one way or the other. I'm guessing that if all the weirdness was found and counted that Bush would have lost both Florida and Ohio. Prove me wrong.
I've bought 4 secondhand Game Gears and three of them have had dead speakers. Anyone know what's up with that?
This could backfire. I've been playing it since my download finished last night and at the moment I've found nothing that makes me want to go out and buy it. In fact, I've started two characters now that have both stalled at roughly the same place. While most of my friends have pre-ordered, I'm *currently* (though this may change) recommending against purchasing the game.
I have the bookmarks at work, but you're looking for papers by Brian Fleay. I don't agree with his conclusions as to the depth of economic impact, his work on energy profit ratio (EPR) looks spot on. I have found this paper though. Key words are highlighted, the passage you should be looking at is almost at the bottom, search for "Large-scale biofuel production".
So is nuclear energy, when you look at the energy required for mining, refining, safe transport and disposal -- not to mention the duration for which nuclear waste is toxic.
Neither option will dig us out of a looming energy hole. Solar and wind can do it, but only if you start while you still have the energy needed to get them running.
Interestingly, the absolute number of votes between Bush and Kerry in Florida hasn't changed as the count has increased from ~1 million to ~7 million votes counted, which tends to imply an early burst of pro-Bush support rather than a clear win for Bush.
That PNG map is two thirds larger than it needs to be. Less than a minute with pngout reduces it from 14,632 to 8,839. Also, it doesn't look like the page is being served gzipped. This can be done by creating a .gz copy and having the web server software hand out whatever the browser can handle, little or no cost to the CPU. All up, the site is probably serving 50% more traffic than it need serve.