not bad, not bad at all. My Satellite L755D gets six hours on the standard battery - I get to watch 720p Xvid with headphones in, three movies between charges.
Two battery bays (one doubles as a drive bay) on the front, *and* an optical drive in the side.
OK, so it weighed eight pounds with two batteries, but I could run it practically continuously for a full weekend with three spares and no power brick.
hm... for an old vs new comparison you need to compare what old Windows games will run on current platforms as well.
For example, will Alpha Centauri run on Win7? No. Will SU-27 Flanker? No. Will Command & Conquer? No. Will Red Alert? No. RA2 will. Yuri's Revenge will. Will Homeworld Cataclysm? No. Surprisingly, Homeworld 1 will. Will Warbirds? No. Will XWing Vs. Tie Fighter? No.
Games that will run on Win7: Unreal Tournament 2002, UT2003, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, Stronghold, Need For Speed: Underground, Simpsons Hit N Run, Half Life, and Worms.
Just a few of the pile I've tried.
If I'm looking at a day filled with gaming, I'll usually break out the XBox. That's what it's for.
Linux has lots of business apps. RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux) comes with a stack of them.
I had a little cry when I migrated from 4D6* and Seagate Info**, which I'd been using for years, to RHEL, where I had to take everything I'd learned from the previous solution and bin it, and learn a whole new syntax. It was hard. I wouldn't honestly recommend a migration from an NT based SAP solution to Linux, it's something you need to go into with a virgin mind or it'll fuck you up.
*Long gone 4th Generation business language solution, I'd be surprised if anyone reading this is even aware of its existence never mind used it or even still uses it. **No longer supported as it was back in 1997, which was when I started using it, the current incarnation has been through the mill of being bundled with Microsoft Visual Studio, now I wouldn't recognise it if it ran up to me and kissed me.
HP is very well covered on Linux. As is Oki and Brother. Disclaimer: I use all three, on SuSE 9.2 Pro. Or are you talking about toy printers (Lexmark, Canon) with ink that costs more than premium champagne?
last good deal I had on portable memory was PNY Olympic Edition 8GB Class 6 SD cards, 2 for £12 (this was June this year). That was a PC World thing. Before that, it was an Integral Class 4 32GB SD card at £24 (when everyone else was selling them at £40+ - Feb/March this year).
These guys have been running since 2000. They not only sell commercial games ported to Linux, they do some of the porting themselves. Oh, and here is their wiki page. Disclaimer: I know the founder.
Maplin UK recently had a While-Stocks-Last promotion on Intenso 64GB pen drives - three for £18. That promo lasted all of half an hour before even the distribution centres ran out.
if you're selling weapons the LAST thing you want is for either side to lose - which is why whatever you sell to one side, you sell to the other. This has several side effects, not least of which you get obscenely rich and you remain neutral (see: Switzerland during WWII, the US arms industry during the Iran-Iraq war and pretty much every other conflict since WWII...). The thing you want to keep in short supply, however, is ammunition.
CCTV isn't admissible for good reason: the resolution sucks.
At twenty feet, one would have difficulty separating the eyes on the face of a subject, never mind smaller features with which to determine a positive identification of a perp.
The only use it has is for extracting confessions.
I watched that yesterday. Agreed, fantastic movie.
Opening lines:
"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"
Because nobody ever went broke selling weapons. Look at my cousin Gaila. He went into weapons, I bought a bar. Now he owns his own moon, and I'm staring into the abyss, and my only hope for salvation is the Federation.
actually, you'd need to offset by 1/1.34" relative to the Solar ecliptic plane. Drift error would likely far exceed that.
*figure obtained by the distance between Cen AB and Sol (4.37LY) and considering the Parsec as defined: the distance at which a 1AU separation describes 1 second of arc (3.26LY).
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mod funny. It's actually an oblique Futurama reference.
_/-\o_ RAZR V3i _o/-\_
It's been dropped, drowned, crushed, blasted, frozen, shot*... still works.
*OK I exaggerated somewhat about it having been shot, it did get thrown pretty hard once.
not bad, not bad at all. My Satellite L755D gets six hours on the standard battery - I get to watch 720p Xvid with headphones in, three movies between charges.
I miss my Dell Inspiron.
Two battery bays (one doubles as a drive bay) on the front, *and* an optical drive in the side.
OK, so it weighed eight pounds with two batteries, but I could run it practically continuously for a full weekend with three spares and no power brick.
wait.
touché.
at 500 feet, a drone's camera has a lower angular resolution than a ground-based eye.
hm... for an old vs new comparison you need to compare what old Windows games will run on current platforms as well.
For example, will Alpha Centauri run on Win7? No.
Will SU-27 Flanker? No.
Will Command & Conquer? No.
Will Red Alert? No. RA2 will. Yuri's Revenge will.
Will Homeworld Cataclysm? No. Surprisingly, Homeworld 1 will.
Will Warbirds? No.
Will XWing Vs. Tie Fighter? No.
Games that will run on Win7: Unreal Tournament 2002, UT2003, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, Stronghold, Need For Speed: Underground, Simpsons Hit N Run, Half Life, and Worms.
Just a few of the pile I've tried.
If I'm looking at a day filled with gaming, I'll usually break out the XBox. That's what it's for.
Loki weren't bankrupted, they were merged into Tux Games.
Please get your facts right.
Linux has lots of business apps. RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux) comes with a stack of them.
I had a little cry when I migrated from 4D6* and Seagate Info**, which I'd been using for years, to RHEL, where I had to take everything I'd learned from the previous solution and bin it, and learn a whole new syntax. It was hard. I wouldn't honestly recommend a migration from an NT based SAP solution to Linux, it's something you need to go into with a virgin mind or it'll fuck you up.
*Long gone 4th Generation business language solution, I'd be surprised if anyone reading this is even aware of its existence never mind used it or even still uses it.
**No longer supported as it was back in 1997, which was when I started using it, the current incarnation has been through the mill of being bundled with Microsoft Visual Studio, now I wouldn't recognise it if it ran up to me and kissed me.
what's really odd is that I've been using Linux for 15 years and never had to compile *anything*.
HP is very well covered on Linux. As is Oki and Brother.
Disclaimer: I use all three, on SuSE 9.2 Pro.
Or are you talking about toy printers (Lexmark, Canon) with ink that costs more than premium champagne?
last good deal I had on portable memory was PNY Olympic Edition 8GB Class 6 SD cards, 2 for £12 (this was June this year). That was a PC World thing. Before that, it was an Integral Class 4 32GB SD card at £24 (when everyone else was selling them at £40+ - Feb/March this year).
These guys have been running since 2000. They not only sell commercial games ported to Linux, they do some of the porting themselves.
Oh, and here is their wiki page.
Disclaimer: I know the founder.
Maplin UK recently had a While-Stocks-Last promotion on Intenso 64GB pen drives - three for £18. That promo lasted all of half an hour before even the distribution centres ran out.
Pissed me off, I was ready to buy nine.
if you're selling weapons the LAST thing you want is for either side to lose - which is why whatever you sell to one side, you sell to the other. This has several side effects, not least of which you get obscenely rich and you remain neutral (see: Switzerland during WWII, the US arms industry during the Iran-Iraq war and pretty much every other conflict since WWII...). The thing you want to keep in short supply, however, is ammunition.
CCTV isn't admissible for good reason: the resolution sucks.
At twenty feet, one would have difficulty separating the eyes on the face of a subject, never mind smaller features with which to determine a positive identification of a perp.
The only use it has is for extracting confessions.
I watched that yesterday. Agreed, fantastic movie.
Opening lines:
"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"
I'm sure he was quoting someone else there...
Change your major. Psychology locks you into child stealing and little else.
Because nobody ever went broke selling weapons. Look at my cousin Gaila. He went into weapons, I bought a bar. Now he owns his own moon, and I'm staring into the abyss, and my only hope for salvation is the Federation.
CCTV cameras have NEVER prevented a crime.
Also: CCTV cameras have NEVER solved a crime.
actually, you'd need to offset by 1/1.34" relative to the Solar ecliptic plane. Drift error would likely far exceed that.
*figure obtained by the distance between Cen AB and Sol (4.37LY) and considering the Parsec as defined: the distance at which a 1AU separation describes 1 second of arc (3.26LY).
I just read the wiki entry on the Smoot, made me chuckle. Amazing how a college prank can live on such as it has.
I hereby surrender my geek card, yes - they sent Teal'c back, didn't they....
Screw your decimal, 22/7 is good enough for me.