I don't know about your desk, but mine has stuff laid on top of a lot of the surface that isn't taken up by the computer. I'd get really annoyed clearing papers and office supplies and stuff out of my flat in-desk monitor. It would also suck if I wanted to show a group of people something, watch a movie, etc. Plus, if my monitor breaks, I don't want to have to replace my desk.
I saw Sunshine and I know what you mean, but this is different. This is REAL. That is what the Earth and the Moon actually look like, it's not a CG simulation.
I was going to post the usual attempt at witty snarkiness, but then I actually watched the video... seeing the Moon actually moving around the Earth like that, it actually made my heart skip a beat. Seeing us that way with my own eyes someday, as unlikely as it may be, is something I really long for.
The highly accurate radio wave reflection system or the highly accurate satellite positioning system? One of you must be wrong! Machines can't lie?! MACHINES CAN'T LIE?!!??!!
I love it too. I even have a little bottle of it. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a transparent container to put it inside that it won't stick to and discolor. Otherwise I'd keep it in a little box on my desk. I don't know why it stains so well, but you spill even a drop of it and it will never come off.
Depends on what you're doing. If you have a laptop that just travels between home, the office and maybe a cafe or two, then no. You don't need a solid state hard drive. If, however, you do a lot of traveling with your laptop, you may very well drop it once or twice, especially if you're hurried at an airport or some other such situation. Are SSDs for everyone? No, but for power users who are on the go a lot, they make your data a lot safer.
It's obvious we never went to the moon. The whole budget went to building movie studios to fake the moon landings. Why the expense? To simulate lower gravity, they had to film it on Mars.
That makes a lot of sense actually. Due to things like PVRs, Neilsen (never all that accurate to begin with) is becoming totally unviable as a method of determining viewership. As networks move to more and more online distribution, I can see how this might be helpful to Viacom, but I wonder if this is what they intended. I could easily see them initially wanting to go after content posters only.
and I don't know if open sourcing it will fix it- is when the graphics are slow to load, there are no placeholders for walls, doors, etc. so I am constantly walking into them. That alone would make the SL experience far, far better. Is that something this new open sourcing would make possible?
but what alternative is there when it comes to actual auctions? I can see the buy-it-now categories being replaced by other online retailers, but there simply is no better website (by better, I mean with as much variety and as many different purchase options) out there at the moment for people to sell each other things on an individual level. So maybe due to things like this buy.com deal, the era of the eBay power seller is over, but a lot of people, including myself, sell at least a handful of things on eBay every year and have since the site debuted. Other than maybe recycler.com and craigslist, both of which are more localized and filled with scammers, I don't see another good option.
The 80s and 90s nothing. Until you've seen The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, you don't know the depths of what Mexican cinema can reach.
That said, there have also been a lot of good Mexican cinema over the years, including the Spanish-language version of Dracula which was made at night on the same sets at the same time as the Bela Lugosi Dracula. Personally, I think Carlos Villaris was a better Dracula than Bela Lugosi.
Do you remember how he was when those mammals moved in down the street? Never heard so much moaning about how "those kinds" were moving into "our" neighborhood. I didn't even have the heart to tell him that everyone in my family had a spinal column...
They're a band-aid group that exists to make us feel like we're actually doing something to help the environment as we continue to pump the biosphere full of toxic crap.
E.P.A. = Easily Pacified Americans
but after you exhaust the topics of the big lights in the sky, the advantages of Mammoth meat and Fire 101, you mostly just sit around banging rocks together.
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If it turned out to have actually contained HP hardware, it would have been a much bigger waste of packaging.
I don't know about your desk, but mine has stuff laid on top of a lot of the surface that isn't taken up by the computer. I'd get really annoyed clearing papers and office supplies and stuff out of my flat in-desk monitor. It would also suck if I wanted to show a group of people something, watch a movie, etc. Plus, if my monitor breaks, I don't want to have to replace my desk.
I saw Sunshine and I know what you mean, but this is different. This is REAL. That is what the Earth and the Moon actually look like, it's not a CG simulation.
I was going to post the usual attempt at witty snarkiness, but then I actually watched the video... seeing the Moon actually moving around the Earth like that, it actually made my heart skip a beat. Seeing us that way with my own eyes someday, as unlikely as it may be, is something I really long for.
Interesting. Thank you. I have no mod points to give, but if I did, I'd give them to you.
The highly accurate radio wave reflection system or the highly accurate satellite positioning system? One of you must be wrong! Machines can't lie?! MACHINES CAN'T LIE?!!??!!
I love it too. I even have a little bottle of it. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a transparent container to put it inside that it won't stick to and discolor. Otherwise I'd keep it in a little box on my desk. I don't know why it stains so well, but you spill even a drop of it and it will never come off.
Amazing how they can make giant glowing polygons float in the sky for the planes to fly through.
is proprietary hardware that brain surgeons can't operate on without voiding the warranty.
The internet revolts more often than post-colonial Africa.
Without ANY problems? I guess all those data recovery companies are going broke.
Depends on what you're doing. If you have a laptop that just travels between home, the office and maybe a cafe or two, then no. You don't need a solid state hard drive. If, however, you do a lot of traveling with your laptop, you may very well drop it once or twice, especially if you're hurried at an airport or some other such situation. Are SSDs for everyone? No, but for power users who are on the go a lot, they make your data a lot safer.
It's the lack of moving parts. Try dropping both types repeatedly and see which one stops working first.
It's obvious we never went to the moon. The whole budget went to building movie studios to fake the moon landings. Why the expense? To simulate lower gravity, they had to film it on Mars.
That makes a lot of sense actually. Due to things like PVRs, Neilsen (never all that accurate to begin with) is becoming totally unviable as a method of determining viewership. As networks move to more and more online distribution, I can see how this might be helpful to Viacom, but I wonder if this is what they intended. I could easily see them initially wanting to go after content posters only.
Viacom gets useless user data that can't be tracked? I'm sure their legal team is beside itself.
My margarine tells me that I can't believe it's not butter... but I can.
Lets here it for vinyl. Nothing is ever removed
Aside, of course, from microscopic bits of vinyl that are shaved off after prolonged use.
and I don't know if open sourcing it will fix it- is when the graphics are slow to load, there are no placeholders for walls, doors, etc. so I am constantly walking into them. That alone would make the SL experience far, far better. Is that something this new open sourcing would make possible?
but what alternative is there when it comes to actual auctions? I can see the buy-it-now categories being replaced by other online retailers, but there simply is no better website (by better, I mean with as much variety and as many different purchase options) out there at the moment for people to sell each other things on an individual level. So maybe due to things like this buy.com deal, the era of the eBay power seller is over, but a lot of people, including myself, sell at least a handful of things on eBay every year and have since the site debuted. Other than maybe recycler.com and craigslist, both of which are more localized and filled with scammers, I don't see another good option.
The 80s and 90s nothing. Until you've seen The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, you don't know the depths of what Mexican cinema can reach. That said, there have also been a lot of good Mexican cinema over the years, including the Spanish-language version of Dracula which was made at night on the same sets at the same time as the Bela Lugosi Dracula. Personally, I think Carlos Villaris was a better Dracula than Bela Lugosi.
Do you remember how he was when those mammals moved in down the street? Never heard so much moaning about how "those kinds" were moving into "our" neighborhood. I didn't even have the heart to tell him that everyone in my family had a spinal column...
They weren't people, they were Thetans and it's their fault that people can't quit smoking. Available at Waldenbooks.
They're a band-aid group that exists to make us feel like we're actually doing something to help the environment as we continue to pump the biosphere full of toxic crap. E.P.A. = Easily Pacified Americans
but after you exhaust the topics of the big lights in the sky, the advantages of Mammoth meat and Fire 101, you mostly just sit around banging rocks together.