Basically? Fuck you. Lame cynicism is fine for wannabe goths in their black paint coated crypt/bedroom in their parent's basement. But, here we have evidence of bringing in one of the finest minds in data visualization to open up the complicated workings of government. This is a good thing.
And where did I say it was a bad thing?
It's makes sense that you got first post (you obviously have a lot of time on your hands)
Early Monday morning, before I get any requests in for something that needs fixing (I'm a mail merge programmer)? You're right, I do have some time on my hands.
but it's really sad that your throw-away cynicism was confused with insight by your fellow high-school students.
I appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to attack me personally, yet do nothing to respond to the quote I referenced.
Interesting... just like a modern politician...which, funny enough, falls under the quote in my OP.
Sorry, I should have been more specific...if over the age of 45 you wouldn't be able to be reelected for the next few cycles...but if you have never served and are over the age of 45 you can still run for election into the senate or the house.
I just meant getting the old-timey regulars outta there, not preventing old-timers in general from getting a seat.
I think we all know how the November elections will turn out. However, there is no way in hell we can foresee who the next president will be. Our political system as we know it, is fucked. I reckon this is a good thing. Perhaps now we can get people more involved with how politics happen in DC and start voting based on someones voting record, and not based purely on party. At least, I hope so.
This isn't an ageism thing, but I honestly feel that anyone in the house or senate over the age of 45 should not be allowed to be reelected, at least not for the next few cycles. Part of the problem is that so many people running this country are stuck in the past without an eye for the future. This worked fine in the 80's and 90's, but nowadays that just doesn't cut it.
Sounds like what I was saying in early 2007, but no one wanted to listen. Now a foreign observer, much more impartial than our own media, is saying exactly the same thing. Gee, I thought Obama was going to usher in a new era of global peace and prosperity. What happened? I would venture to guess that it has something to do with the fact that he has never run even so much as a convenience store, and now his naivete and inexperience are catching up to his vacuous rhetoric.
In Obama's defense, none of the other options were any better. McCain bends to the will of his party far too easily (we already had one puppet president for 8 years with GWB, we certainly didn't need 4 more with McCain), Ron Paul (like many third party candidates) is convinced that only his way is the right way, and everyone else was too polarizing.
Unfortunately, the extremes of the parties are the ones in control...this makes electing someone truly worthy of being president nearly impossible. You can't get anywhere in politics unless you give up your values, and once you give up your values you become worthless as a leader.
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'" -Bill Hicks
Yes, but Microsoft doesn't advertise their products as being secure and safe from viruses...Apple specifically states in their advertising that Macs don't suffer from those issues (which, at this point, is mostly true).
I'm telling you...once Apple's market share is big enough to entice virus and malware writers to pay attention to them, things are going to get bad really fast.
All I'm saying is that a LOT of Apple customers are your average consumer without a lot of computer knowledge who have bought Apple products under the impression that they are secure and safe. Once Apple's marketshare gets big enough to make them a worthwhile target of hackers and virus writers, it's not going to be pretty.
You know, with Apple products experiencing something of a resurgence in the past 5-10 years and their popularity slowly increasing, they will eventually cross that invisible line where hackers decide that it becomes worth their time to attack Apple products the way they attack Windows. The fact that people are sold Apple products under the guise of security and not having to worry about compromised hardware/software means they won't see it coming and won't know how to deal with it, either.
As I asked another poster further down in the conversation, if that is the case, would you consider something using the new ION 2 hardware to be a regular laptop then? Despite having the form factor and battery life of a netbook?
Yeah...Blizzard (like Valve) is good about keeping the minimum requirements on their games low, but making the visuals scale quite well. The difference in visuals with World of Warcraft turned all the way down and turned all the way up is HUGE, , but all the way down requires very little computing power while all the way up still doesn't require anything unreasonable.
Out of curiosity, what netbook are you running it on and what are the specs?
It came with the 8 gig SSD -_-;; It was a gift though...so..you know...free is good:-)
I don't need the increased storage for the games (I have an 8 gig Class 6 SDHC in there, which holds whatever I'm currently playing), I need the increased storage because there is only about a gig of free space even after cutting down Windows 7 with vLite. Even just a 16 gig SSD would be more than enough, I just haven't done it.
I have an 8 gig Class 6 SDHC in there currently, and it's been great.
My SSD, however, is also an 8 gig. The cost of upgrading the SSD is about equal to upgrading to a larger SDHC. And before you ask, it was a gift, which is why I didn't get it with more internal storage in the first place.
You're missing the point of netbooks. Obligatory car analogy; do you buy a motorcycle (because it's portable) and then bemoan the fact that you can't carry four people on it?
Of course not.
No, you get a damn car. Similarly, you don't buy a tiny netbook with a 1.6ghz low powered single core, 1gb of ram and integrated video, and then absurdly expect that it would or should be capable of gaming. Want portable gaming? Buy an alienware.
I'm not upset that older netbooks can't do it, I just want a little more focus placed on it in the future. Look at the performance difference between an original EEE PC and the netbooks that are out on the market now...the difference is huge, with only a couple of years seperating them. I'm simply looking for enough of a performance bump so that I can do simple gaming without having to take a full-size laptop with me. Again, we aren't talking about Crysis with full AA here...we're talking about something like Civ IV being playable on medium. Do you think it's ludicrous to want my $400-500 modern machine to be able to run a game that is nearly 5 years old at HALF of what that game is capable of displaying?
That other poster was right, you're an absolute twit for thinking Intel simply didn't think to make their chips more powerful whilst still drawing the same power.
Again, I never said they didn't do it...I said they should do it in the future now that technology has caught up to the size. Thanks for the insult though, I appreciate it.
For the record, as far as I'm concerned, the netbook/laptop distinction is that netbooks have an Atom or ARM CPU (or AMD's offering, once they release it) and are no more than 11 inches. If a clamshell-style portable computer doesn't meet both of those conditions, it's a laptop.
So once the ION 2 systems become widely available...would you still consider that a netbook, despite their ability to (supposedly) play modern games?
You're talking about the M11x, yeah? It does look awesome and certainly has far more performance than I'm looking for, but I can't justify spending that much money on such a small system...~$800 would be a great "full-size" laptop:/ I know that's sort of like throwing your post back at you, sorry about that...
Like I said, I'm not looking to play something like Bioshock 2 or Modern Warfare 2 on there...I just want something like Civ 4 on Medium settings to run at a playable pace. I know netbooks aren't designed for heavy gaming, but being able to play a game of Civ IV or logging on to WoW and keep things playable and not-ugly would be nice...at least, if for no other reason other than travel and as a cheap "guest" machine at a LAN.
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Occam's Razor at work. Much respect to Mr. Wilhelmson.
The quote doesn't meant they are the same, it means they are slaves to the same master...greed.
Images of Wile E. Coyote sitting on a nano-tube rocket trying to light a fuse are taking over my mind's eye.
Electrolytes?
Ask, and ye shall receive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX#PPU
Basically? Fuck you. Lame cynicism is fine for wannabe goths in their black paint coated crypt/bedroom in their parent's basement. But, here we have evidence of bringing in one of the finest minds in data visualization to open up the complicated workings of government. This is a good thing.
And where did I say it was a bad thing?
It's makes sense that you got first post (you obviously have a lot of time on your hands)
Early Monday morning, before I get any requests in for something that needs fixing (I'm a mail merge programmer)? You're right, I do have some time on my hands.
but it's really sad that your throw-away cynicism was confused with insight by your fellow high-school students.
I appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to attack me personally, yet do nothing to respond to the quote I referenced.
Interesting... just like a modern politician...which, funny enough, falls under the quote in my OP.
Sorry, I should have been more specific...if over the age of 45 you wouldn't be able to be reelected for the next few cycles...but if you have never served and are over the age of 45 you can still run for election into the senate or the house.
I just meant getting the old-timey regulars outta there, not preventing old-timers in general from getting a seat.
I think we all know how the November elections will turn out. However, there is no way in hell we can foresee who the next president will be. Our political system as we know it, is fucked. I reckon this is a good thing. Perhaps now we can get people more involved with how politics happen in DC and start voting based on someones voting record, and not based purely on party. At least, I hope so.
This isn't an ageism thing, but I honestly feel that anyone in the house or senate over the age of 45 should not be allowed to be reelected, at least not for the next few cycles. Part of the problem is that so many people running this country are stuck in the past without an eye for the future. This worked fine in the 80's and 90's, but nowadays that just doesn't cut it.
Term limits in general would be a great thing...
Sounds like what I was saying in early 2007, but no one wanted to listen. Now a foreign observer, much more impartial than our own media, is saying exactly the same thing. Gee, I thought Obama was going to usher in a new era of global peace and prosperity. What happened? I would venture to guess that it has something to do with the fact that he has never run even so much as a convenience store, and now his naivete and inexperience are catching up to his vacuous rhetoric.
In Obama's defense, none of the other options were any better. McCain bends to the will of his party far too easily (we already had one puppet president for 8 years with GWB, we certainly didn't need 4 more with McCain), Ron Paul (like many third party candidates) is convinced that only his way is the right way, and everyone else was too polarizing.
Unfortunately, the extremes of the parties are the ones in control...this makes electing someone truly worthy of being president nearly impossible. You can't get anywhere in politics unless you give up your values, and once you give up your values you become worthless as a leader.
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'" -Bill Hicks
Yes, but Microsoft doesn't advertise their products as being secure and safe from viruses...Apple specifically states in their advertising that Macs don't suffer from those issues (which, at this point, is mostly true).
I'm telling you...once Apple's market share is big enough to entice virus and malware writers to pay attention to them, things are going to get bad really fast.
All I'm saying is that a LOT of Apple customers are your average consumer without a lot of computer knowledge who have bought Apple products under the impression that they are secure and safe. Once Apple's marketshare gets big enough to make them a worthwhile target of hackers and virus writers, it's not going to be pretty.
You know, with Apple products experiencing something of a resurgence in the past 5-10 years and their popularity slowly increasing, they will eventually cross that invisible line where hackers decide that it becomes worth their time to attack Apple products the way they attack Windows. The fact that people are sold Apple products under the guise of security and not having to worry about compromised hardware/software means they won't see it coming and won't know how to deal with it, either.
Be careful with becoming too big, Apple Nation.
I'm actually playing through Aarcanum on it (Haven't played Arcanum in years!), and Deus Ex runs great on there as well.
As I asked another poster further down in the conversation, if that is the case, would you consider something using the new ION 2 hardware to be a regular laptop then? Despite having the form factor and battery life of a netbook?
I dunno man, the ION 2 stuff looks like it's going to be exactly what I'm looking for. Here's to hoping.
Oh, and screw Centauri's car...I'd be happy with his super-snazzy suit.
I keep using it as an example because the gameplay is perfectly suited for something like a netbook...travel, or parked on a couch watching TV.
But yeah...I do love Civ IV :-)
Yeah...Blizzard (like Valve) is good about keeping the minimum requirements on their games low, but making the visuals scale quite well. The difference in visuals with World of Warcraft turned all the way down and turned all the way up is HUGE, , but all the way down requires very little computing power while all the way up still doesn't require anything unreasonable.
Out of curiosity, what netbook are you running it on and what are the specs?
It came with the 8 gig SSD -_-;; It was a gift though...so..you know...free is good :-)
I don't need the increased storage for the games (I have an 8 gig Class 6 SDHC in there, which holds whatever I'm currently playing), I need the increased storage because there is only about a gig of free space even after cutting down Windows 7 with vLite. Even just a 16 gig SSD would be more than enough, I just haven't done it.
I have an 8 gig Class 6 SDHC in there currently, and it's been great.
My SSD, however, is also an 8 gig. The cost of upgrading the SSD is about equal to upgrading to a larger SDHC. And before you ask, it was a gift, which is why I didn't get it with more internal storage in the first place.
Small, somewhat cheap, and slightly fast.
See? Cut two of them down, and suddenly all three are possible.
You're missing the point of netbooks. Obligatory car analogy; do you buy a motorcycle (because it's portable) and then bemoan the fact that you can't carry four people on it?
Of course not.
No, you get a damn car. Similarly, you don't buy a tiny netbook with a 1.6ghz low powered single core, 1gb of ram and integrated video, and then absurdly expect that it would or should be capable of gaming. Want portable gaming? Buy an alienware.
I'm not upset that older netbooks can't do it, I just want a little more focus placed on it in the future. Look at the performance difference between an original EEE PC and the netbooks that are out on the market now...the difference is huge, with only a couple of years seperating them. I'm simply looking for enough of a performance bump so that I can do simple gaming without having to take a full-size laptop with me. Again, we aren't talking about Crysis with full AA here...we're talking about something like Civ IV being playable on medium. Do you think it's ludicrous to want my $400-500 modern machine to be able to run a game that is nearly 5 years old at HALF of what that game is capable of displaying?
That other poster was right, you're an absolute twit for thinking Intel simply didn't think to make their chips more powerful whilst still drawing the same power.
Again, I never said they didn't do it...I said they should do it in the future now that technology has caught up to the size. Thanks for the insult though, I appreciate it.
For the record, as far as I'm concerned, the netbook/laptop distinction is that netbooks have an Atom or ARM CPU (or AMD's offering, once they release it) and are no more than 11 inches. If a clamshell-style portable computer doesn't meet both of those conditions, it's a laptop.
So once the ION 2 systems become widely available...would you still consider that a netbook, despite their ability to (supposedly) play modern games?
You're talking about the M11x, yeah? It does look awesome and certainly has far more performance than I'm looking for, but I can't justify spending that much money on such a small system...~$800 would be a great "full-size" laptop :/ I know that's sort of like throwing your post back at you, sorry about that...
I agree with the parent poster...I LOVE that my netbook has no moving parts and runs silently.
Like I said, I'm not looking to play something like Bioshock 2 or Modern Warfare 2 on there...I just want something like Civ 4 on Medium settings to run at a playable pace. I know netbooks aren't designed for heavy gaming, but being able to play a game of Civ IV or logging on to WoW and keep things playable and not-ugly would be nice...at least, if for no other reason other than travel and as a cheap "guest" machine at a LAN.