max payne 2 did a good job with this. by letting you slow down action and have a decent selection of movements, the player was able to choose a variety of ways to clear a room. me being me, i would save outside of every door and not stop trying until i could run in, dive, and kill everyone in the room without sustaining a hit.
however, that youtube video of people shouting out spoilers to a harry potter book at people waiting in line outside a bookstore was pretty damn funny. i suppose that it would be really upsetting if it happened to you, though.
i guess that mel brooks is right: "tragedy is when i cut my finger. comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
so wait, you don't live in Utah but bars near you try to do the same (or similar) membership song and dance? so where do you live, so i can avoid there too?
oh suck up the self-importance and get a sense of humor. also: not your personal shopper.
i actually didn't claim anything, but i can tell you that you are not going to get a gaming rig for $400 at a brick and mortar retailer. you might be able to get a bare-bones system and a video card online if you want a cheap gaming rig. a quick perusal of tigerdirect.com shows barebones systems based on dual core processors for between $200 and $400. if you pick lower end you can get a graphics card with whatever connectors you want for a hundred or so.
don't expect the deal of the century at a big box retailer, they have to heat and light that huge building. you say "ready to run" but you should probably just suck it up and assemble it yourself. this is not rocket surgery, dude.
thanks for the advice, i think that i will be looking into rdiff. it sounds like a good solution for mirroring over my internal network to another PC.
now i just have to find a better DVD backup utility. the nero backup thingie that came with my LG dvd burner is...less than user friendly. after tinkering with all the settings, choosing the directory, etc. it crashed while burning dvd 8 of 8 and aborted with no recover. sigh. glad i wasn't doing a bigger backup
that sounds like a pretty cheap and secure service. like you said though, the upload time is a killer. i might look into them for hosting those things that you can't afford to lose. i don't think the media folder is going to get sent there, though...
thanks for sharing your backup solution, i appreciate the input
i understand, and agree. now please help me out with one point here: what is the preferred method to backup about 200GB of data that i would not like to lose? put it on a external drive and place it in a cabinet? 1/2 a spindle of DVDs? buy an overpriced tape backup? i know that mirroring is not a back up so i am frozen like a deer in headlights, hoping that my drive doesn't die...
anyone? (caveat: i will add you an a foe if you make one peep about cloud computing)
yeah, my HP printer is not networked at all, just a vanilla USB local printer (C4440, if you care). the driver tries to dial home every hour or so. i thought it would stop if i let it check for updates, but it didn't. i am not willing to assume that it isn't doing something that i would find objectionable so i banned it from the net. for all i know it is sending copies of everything that i scan to HP or.ru
yeah, surfing the web with linux would be safer (i am assuming you are talking about linux) but in the long run in would get less done and spend more time doing it. i like linux, i have a ubuntu box, but i will never ditch windows completely. there are a lot of apps that i find indispensable that are windows only.
and if you are talking about apple, i just will refer you to my username...i don't have the cash for that.
when something malicious got through AVG, spybot, and adaware i was clued in when fdsb423.exe started trying to connect with the internet. a software firewall is not a defense, but it is a good way to tell that you have something going on. i also agree it is fun to turn off the dial-home on software that doesn't need to talk to it's mommy. HP printer drivers, i am looking at you.
that model of photography works in the digital age when there is no cost to each shot and thousands can be taken. or if you have a large budget when using film. however, some of the best photographers have done their work when poor, with limited resources to shoot and develop large amounts of pictures.
i have been along for a shoot with truly amazing photographers that use film. one in particular that i knew had 22 keepers on a roll of 24. about 18 of those ended up in a show. an anecdote and a limited sample, to be sure. but i think that the best photographers have a good eye for composition and can see what a subject is going to look like through a lens without ever lifting the camera.
i am not discounting what you say as being valid for some (maybe most, i don't know) photographers. and the point you are raising through your comparison is valid and interesting. i just wanted to clarify that in my experience not all photographers are promiscuous about taking pictures, and photography is not necessarily curation at it's core.
as i have found out, this is painfully not true. occasionally adobe (with no updates/changes) will decide to fight with a print driver, resulting in random ASCII gibberish instead of a document. this has caused immense fun us and our clients.
i carry a pocket knife. as in, a 2.75 inch blade pocket knife and i have had people act like i am Dahmer about to slice their face off. it is crazy how some people are so afraid of inanimate objects, rather than the intentions of the people with them.
of course, if i lived in england i couldn't carry that knife anywhere.
Try turning up to vote and not ticking the box next to the demagogue. That works for me.
you wrongly assume that someone who values the constitution and the rights reserved in it votes conservative. i don't. there are liberals who own guns. the mind it boggles. but why should any american care what "works" for you as far as our politics go?
and you can still fuck off about gun rights, if you live in a country without any the you are safe from the bad bad guns. so why do you have to shit all over a thread about something else because you have an axe to grind over weapons? oh, and here is a pro tip: this has fuck all to do with concealed carry guns. it was locked in a freaking case. in a house.
look, i don't know where you live but no house i have ever been in has lockers all over the place. maybe you were raised by a homeless bodybuilder and camped out at gyms all the time, i don't know.
a normal house doesn't have anyplace to lock things up from curious little hands (or murdering psychotic ones, either). which is why a responsible gun owner will purchase a gun safe (not a locker, but a similar size) or in this case, a lockbox (which is usually smaller). so when the kid needed his game confiscated, they put it in a case that they thought he would have no access to. probably the only place with a lock on it. that isn't careless, no matter what you "sense". if the gun is locked up, it really doesn't matter if the dad hid a game in there, or a stack of hustlers. it was fucking locked up. so why don't you quit your "whining".
are you from england, by any chance? you know, the country where you can't carry a pocket knife anymore. or where most of your rights can be taken away if you are ruled to be "antisocial".
in the end, it doesn't really matter where you are. you can stand there smug, disarmed, and wait for the next tyrant to take you over. but the real question is this: why do you need to involve yourself in US politics whenever it comes up? why can't you just mind your own business? no one over here, on either end of the political spectrum, gives one shit about what you want or think about our country.
you know the "HR wall" in every workplace, where all the notices about OSHA etc. are posted? well, there will be a notice there telling you that it is illegal for an employer to require a polygraph.
if you think that the price tag of an item determines the quality of it, you're sorely mistaken. some of the best headphones can be bought for less than $100. (see Grado Labs)
thanks for the advice...GrxViewLt is a great photo viewer, and TCPMP is very good at playing video...both are so much better than the built in media software. now i have to try out ScummVM
that was an interesting read. coincidentally i just was given a new-in-the-box tungsten E2. i am trying to figure out what to do with it right now. Loaded a PDF reader on it with a couple books (unfortunately i went with the Adobe reader, which is terrible...i am going to try out PalmPDF this weekend). I also downloaded FileZ, since there is apparently no way to examine the file system natively.
so do you have any suggestions for good apps, games, or interesting things to do with it for someone who doesn't need a PDA for it's primary use (i.e. contact management)
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max payne 2 did a good job with this. by letting you slow down action and have a decent selection of movements, the player was able to choose a variety of ways to clear a room. me being me, i would save outside of every door and not stop trying until i could run in, dive, and kill everyone in the room without sustaining a hit.
however, that youtube video of people shouting out spoilers to a harry potter book at people waiting in line outside a bookstore was pretty damn funny. i suppose that it would be really upsetting if it happened to you, though.
i guess that mel brooks is right: "tragedy is when i cut my finger. comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
so wait, you don't live in Utah but bars near you try to do the same (or similar) membership song and dance? so where do you live, so i can avoid there too?
make them wear mittens?
exactly!
this is why i do all of my business using someone else's social security number. identity theft is a real problem!
oh suck up the self-importance and get a sense of humor. also: not your personal shopper.
i actually didn't claim anything, but i can tell you that you are not going to get a gaming rig for $400 at a brick and mortar retailer. you might be able to get a bare-bones system and a video card online if you want a cheap gaming rig. a quick perusal of tigerdirect.com shows barebones systems based on dual core processors for between $200 and $400. if you pick lower end you can get a graphics card with whatever connectors you want for a hundred or so.
don't expect the deal of the century at a big box retailer, they have to heat and light that huge building. you say "ready to run" but you should probably just suck it up and assemble it yourself. this is not rocket surgery, dude.
at Office Depot
well there's your problem, right there
thanks for the advice, i think that i will be looking into rdiff. it sounds like a good solution for mirroring over my internal network to another PC.
now i just have to find a better DVD backup utility. the nero backup thingie that came with my LG dvd burner is...less than user friendly. after tinkering with all the settings, choosing the directory, etc. it crashed while burning dvd 8 of 8 and aborted with no recover. sigh. glad i wasn't doing a bigger backup
that sounds like a pretty cheap and secure service. like you said though, the upload time is a killer. i might look into them for hosting those things that you can't afford to lose. i don't think the media folder is going to get sent there, though...
thanks for sharing your backup solution, i appreciate the input
i understand, and agree. now please help me out with one point here: what is the preferred method to backup about 200GB of data that i would not like to lose? put it on a external drive and place it in a cabinet? 1/2 a spindle of DVDs? buy an overpriced tape backup? i know that mirroring is not a back up so i am frozen like a deer in headlights, hoping that my drive doesn't die...
anyone? (caveat: i will add you an a foe if you make one peep about cloud computing)
wow. i guess that is a good reason to use a 3rd party firewall & AV, right? hopefully they won't allow random programs to disable the firewall.
yeah, my HP printer is not networked at all, just a vanilla USB local printer (C4440, if you care). the driver tries to dial home every hour or so. i thought it would stop if i let it check for updates, but it didn't. i am not willing to assume that it isn't doing something that i would find objectionable so i banned it from the net. for all i know it is sending copies of everything that i scan to HP or .ru
yeah, surfing the web with linux would be safer (i am assuming you are talking about linux) but in the long run in would get less done and spend more time doing it. i like linux, i have a ubuntu box, but i will never ditch windows completely. there are a lot of apps that i find indispensable that are windows only.
and if you are talking about apple, i just will refer you to my username...i don't have the cash for that.
yes, yes, and yes.
when something malicious got through AVG, spybot, and adaware i was clued in when fdsb423.exe started trying to connect with the internet. a software firewall is not a defense, but it is a good way to tell that you have something going on. i also agree it is fun to turn off the dial-home on software that doesn't need to talk to it's mommy. HP printer drivers, i am looking at you.
that model of photography works in the digital age when there is no cost to each shot and thousands can be taken. or if you have a large budget when using film. however, some of the best photographers have done their work when poor, with limited resources to shoot and develop large amounts of pictures.
i have been along for a shoot with truly amazing photographers that use film. one in particular that i knew had 22 keepers on a roll of 24. about 18 of those ended up in a show. an anecdote and a limited sample, to be sure. but i think that the best photographers have a good eye for composition and can see what a subject is going to look like through a lens without ever lifting the camera.
i am not discounting what you say as being valid for some (maybe most, i don't know) photographers. and the point you are raising through your comparison is valid and interesting. i just wanted to clarify that in my experience not all photographers are promiscuous about taking pictures, and photography is not necessarily curation at it's core.
it prints the same way every time
as i have found out, this is painfully not true. occasionally adobe (with no updates/changes) will decide to fight with a print driver, resulting in random ASCII gibberish instead of a document. this has caused immense fun us and our clients.
bigoted? oh do tell, you delusional flamewarrior
i carry a pocket knife. as in, a 2.75 inch blade pocket knife and i have had people act like i am Dahmer about to slice their face off. it is crazy how some people are so afraid of inanimate objects, rather than the intentions of the people with them.
of course, if i lived in england i couldn't carry that knife anywhere.
Try turning up to vote and not ticking the box next to the demagogue. That works for me.
you wrongly assume that someone who values the constitution and the rights reserved in it votes conservative. i don't. there are liberals who own guns. the mind it boggles. but why should any american care what "works" for you as far as our politics go?
and you can still fuck off about gun rights, if you live in a country without any the you are safe from the bad bad guns. so why do you have to shit all over a thread about something else because you have an axe to grind over weapons? oh, and here is a pro tip: this has fuck all to do with concealed carry guns. it was locked in a freaking case. in a house.
look, i don't know where you live but no house i have ever been in has lockers all over the place. maybe you were raised by a homeless bodybuilder and camped out at gyms all the time, i don't know.
a normal house doesn't have anyplace to lock things up from curious little hands (or murdering psychotic ones, either). which is why a responsible gun owner will purchase a gun safe (not a locker, but a similar size) or in this case, a lockbox (which is usually smaller). so when the kid needed his game confiscated, they put it in a case that they thought he would have no access to. probably the only place with a lock on it. that isn't careless, no matter what you "sense". if the gun is locked up, it really doesn't matter if the dad hid a game in there, or a stack of hustlers. it was fucking locked up. so why don't you quit your "whining".
are you from england, by any chance? you know, the country where you can't carry a pocket knife anymore. or where most of your rights can be taken away if you are ruled to be "antisocial".
in the end, it doesn't really matter where you are. you can stand there smug, disarmed, and wait for the next tyrant to take you over. but the real question is this: why do you need to involve yourself in US politics whenever it comes up? why can't you just mind your own business? no one over here, on either end of the political spectrum, gives one shit about what you want or think about our country.
you know the "HR wall" in every workplace, where all the notices about OSHA etc. are posted? well, there will be a notice there telling you that it is illegal for an employer to require a polygraph.
or, you know, you could have just fucking googled it
if you think that the price tag of an item determines the quality of it, you're sorely mistaken. some of the best headphones can be bought for less than $100. (see Grado Labs)
thanks for the advice...GrxViewLt is a great photo viewer, and TCPMP is very good at playing video...both are so much better than the built in media software. now i have to try out ScummVM
good luck on keeping your PDA alive.
that was an interesting read. coincidentally i just was given a new-in-the-box tungsten E2. i am trying to figure out what to do with it right now. Loaded a PDF reader on it with a couple books (unfortunately i went with the Adobe reader, which is terrible...i am going to try out PalmPDF this weekend). I also downloaded FileZ, since there is apparently no way to examine the file system natively.
so do you have any suggestions for good apps, games, or interesting things to do with it for someone who doesn't need a PDA for it's primary use (i.e. contact management)