I think it is because they aren't really trolling and they know they won't be modded down for what they say because it really is funny, insightful, or informative.
There is a specification for transfering stereo audio over Bluetooth. I have a Bluewave from Macally, which is a set of Bluetooth headphones with a Bluetooth transmitter for an iPod. With a headphone extension cable the transmitter could be used with anything with a headphone jack. There are several problems with the Bluewave. One is that both the transmitter and the headphones each uses two AAA batteries which isn't enough power, as the set only lasts about four hours, but that is not the fault of the Bluetooth spec. At any rate, the worst thing that happened to me was that the connection was lost and all I heard was loud static. Turning the headset and transmitter off and then back on fixed it though. On the other hand, the headset of the Bluewave has a 1/8" jack so it could be used wirelessly with a cassette adaptor in a car, but why?
Embedded chips that act like credit cards won't ever happen because too many evangelical christians would never go for something embedded chips. This would be because they feel it is one of the signs of the "End times."
Also there is: "Stuffit Expander"
Yes it is far from perfect. Yes, it does only decompress and Stuffit Standard, which will compress. Stuffit Expander will decompress many types of files. However, to get Stuffit Expander you have to give up your e-mail address and they will send you at least some spam, but Allume, the developer, from my previous experience is at least not totally scum.
Oh things do happen in North Dakota that taxpayers have had to pay for. The Red River which flows north between Minnesota and North Dakota and up into Canada and Hudson Bay, flooded about a few years ago. The flooding affected Fargo, a small city, among other places on the Red River.
At an aside as a resident of a suburb Minneapolis, Minnesota. We have the largest number of derechos from May to August in the US. A derecho is a long lived fast moving windstorm associated with a thunderstorm. Derechos for the most part are not exceptionally dangerous as like a tornado or hurricane, but a serious event can blow down power lines and trees. In 1998 after a derecho I remember visiting a house in a neighborhood that at one point probably had many large trees. One could determine this as there were many tall stumps that reached ten feet into the air with no branches or leaves.
I've always thought that games with random drops are cliche. For instance, in Guild Wars, a game I have been playing recently I have noticed this. Why was that Charr Blade Warrior carrying a magical Fire Staff? It's not like that charr was going to be doing anything with it.
The other end of the spectrum is Chrome, a lesser known FPS. In Chrome, dead bodies would have all of the weapons, ammo, and health packs that one would expect to find on them. This can get really wierd as the only way to get the best rifle or the rocket launcher is off of dead bodies. The only problem is that getting more ammo for these weapons must be done by killing other enemies that have these weapons.
Granted there are other problems with Chrome and other games like it. For instance, imagine you are guarding a room and someone trying to get into the room, opens the door and throws a grenade in. One of the guys in the room sees the grenade and yells "grenade." Do you, like the AI in Chrome would and stand still and wait for the grenade to go off and seriously injure you? Or do you run like hell away from the grenade, like any sane person would?
Back in '97 I had a short job where I was installing NT 4.0 on some machines. Many of these machines were only 100 MHz 486 based machines. Most only had 16MB of RAM, but that was upgraded to 32 MB in MOST cases. The worst machine, one that ran about as fast a slug, was a 66MHz 486. The machine only had three SIMM slots and 4MB soldered RAM. The only SIMMs available were 8MB. When upgraded the total amount of RAM on this poor machine was 28MB of RAM, the machine took several minutes to boot and was almost totally usable once booted. It was the best I could do for the poor user.
In Minnesota at least, riders are unconstitutional. Bills have to cover one subject and unreated items cannot be on the bill or else the rider item is declared unconstitutional. Two years ago gun rights extrememists in the Republican controlled Minnesota House attached a conceal carry law to a natural resources technical bill, alone the conceal carry bill would have never passed the Democrat held Senate. The rider itself may have even been written by the NRA. Last month the Minnesota Appeals Court ruled the rider unconstitutional. The courts have declared riders unconstitutional many times before for other riders. At any rate, new concealed carry bills have been introduced in the House and Senate, but the bills seems to have a tough time ahead of them. The Senate in Minnesota is still held by the Democrats and since last year's election the Republicans only hold a two seat majority in the House.
... and I think I'm generous for indicating that Windows ME was even for "bug fixes" when it was far more bug-riddled than Windows 98.
Without trying to start a long offtopic argument. I think Windows ME gets plenty of bad press that is somewhat undeserved. Windows ME isn't as bad when you have installed all of the updates from Windows Update. In fact, there are some nice features in ME that 98SE does not have, like System Restore. However, without the updates Windows ME is very unstable. When it has been updated, Windows ME, I think is as good as Windows 98SE. When it has not been updated, Windows ME is easily the worst version of Windows 9x. Granted, no OS should be shipped in the condition Windows ME was shipped in.
I have had Windows XP fail to activate several times. When XP fails to activate it shows a screen that asks for a new licence key. There is an option to call by phone for reactivation. Just call Microsoft from the number they give. This next part will be a huge pain. You will have to recite, by voice, a 40 digit number to an automated system. After that you may be sent to a real person to recite the number again, potentially. Next, they will ask if this is the only computer that that the copy of XP you are trying to activate is installed on. Then you get another 40 digit number to type in. Assuming all goes well after this number has been entered then XP will be activated again. This procedure is not so fun, but generally I find that I only have to reactivate each copy of XP once. Then, Microsoft gets the idea and future activations with that licence key is automatic.
Yes diesel is really bad, but the pollution problem is being worked on. In the US diesel fuel has sulfur added to it for engine lubrication. Sulfur is supposed to be phased down from 500 ppm to 15 ppm in 2006. With that phase down, emission control systems can be added to reduce particulate matter emissions by 90% and Nitrous Oxides by 95%.
This Gigabyte card is kind of a hackish solution. The problem is is that high end PCIe video cards from nVidia and ATI are not available in large quantities to end users. If the new higher end cards from ATI, the X800, the X800XL, X850XT, and X800XT PE become available quickly about all this Gigabyte card will be good for is as a collector's item. However ATI has had one too many vapor launches this year, so I guess we will see.
At any rate, to reply to the parent. Some Matrox cards have two DVI ports and with a cable these cards can support up to three VGA ports. Matrox cards, however, are not known for their compatability or speed with games.
However, the ATI "Bullhead" reference motherboard for the RS480 Athlon 64 PCIe chipset has a DVI port on the board. The onboard video on the RS480 will continue to work with a video card in the 16x PCIe slot so you could have three DVI ports on such a system. I have no idea how 3D gaming would work on such a system though.
So what kind of game would have the descriptors: "Nudity", "Real Gambling", and "Some Adult Assistance May Be Needed"? Then again, maybe I don't want to see a game like this.
Nausea is not just limited to Half-Life 2, I have been playing Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, another Source engine game, and after playing that game for a while I feel a little nauseous. In VtM:B if one is in first person before entering combat, entering combat causes the camera to enter into third person, that may be what is causing my nausea. Then again, maybe the low fov in first person on VtM:B may be causing it too.
When I played No One Lives Forever 2 a while ago, which is another low fov game, and which gave me nausea too initially. After playing the game a while I just got used to the motion of the game and I no longer had any nausea when I played to NOLF2.
In doing some research on this post, one article suggested that no to do the activity that causes the nausea on an empty stomach. The article also suggested that it may help to eat a small, low-fat meal before the activity.
Crap man, all you really need to know about all of the Samsung CRT computer monitors from the last two years is to avoid all of them like the plague. From the low maximum resolutions on the last generation to the extremely poor color range and poor contrast on the current generation there is no really good reason to buy a Samsung CRT computer monitor. The most maddening thing about this is that the picture looks fine on the 26" Samsung HDTV looks fine. This is despite the fact that Samsung uses the same brandname, DynaFlat, for the tube in their CRT computer monitors, the picture on them looks much worse than the picture on their HDTV monitors.
The story is different on their LCDs and the other computer hardware Samsung manufactures, which is of decent quality, relatively reliable, and inexpensive. I use Samsung hard drives, optical drives, and memory and I think that they are great. Of the several that I own, none of them have failed on me, even after using some of them for over a year. In my experience, if a piece of computer hardware lasts a year, it is probably about time to move it to a slower computer or retire it all together. However, Samsung CRT computer monitors are absolutely terrible.
Wow, another off topic post by me, oops. Oh well, maybe this will end up on Google.
Barry Goldwater in '64. Seriously, Barry Goldwater actually advocated using low yield nuclear weapons to defoliate Vietnam to make it harder for the VC to hide.
Except for that lousy write cache hard drive corrupution bug in 7.5.3. Not to mention the Mac version Netscape 3 and its annoying habit of freezing for 30 seconds and then working fine until it freezes again. Ahh 1996 what a great year for computers.
Only the 8500, 9100, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, and the X800 series have component out. The 9000 or the 9200 series do not have component out. Most of the 9600SE and 9600 cards do not have fans. IIRC the X600SE and the X600 will have no fan either. A better option with HDTVs is hooking cards with DVI ports up to the DVI port on the HDTV. Only certain GPUs can send the proper preamble to an HDTV to allow the display of images. I know this is possible with the All in Wonder 9000Pro, and the AIW 9800. I would assume that this is the case with the 9000 and newer cards including the 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X800 series. I have no idea what the case is with DVI ports and HDTVs with the 7000, 7200, 7500, 8500, 9100, 9500, and 9700 series.
The seven county area metro area including Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota have a system where by a resident can bring just about any sort of junk including old electronics and have them taken care of. Some of this material costs money to recycle, but recycling old electronics, including monitors, are free as long as you are a private individual. I have used this extensively and there has been no cost to me for my old electronics.
Then get an AIW 9000 or an AIW 9800. The AIW 9000 has a DVI port and requires no external power. However the AIW 9000 does not support component video out. However with the right cable the DVI port will work with an HDTV with a DVI port. The AIW 9800 has a DVI port, but has the external power requirement. The AIW 9800 also has component video out. Like the AIW 9000, with the right cable the DVI port will work with an HDTV with a DVI port. Samsung sells a 26" direct view HDTV with a DVI port and a built in ASTC/QAM/NTSC tuner. The Samsung TV shouldn't be too hard to find. If you want an AIW 9000 be quick about it. The replacement for the AIW 9000, the AIW 9200 only has a VGA port. However the AIW 9000 is still generally available.
Because of this layout even unshielded balanced feeders would radiate enough energy to cause interference to every home in the country, effectively shutting down not only the amatuer service, but also commecrial AM, aeronautical radionavigation and communication, maritime communication, as well as governmental communications systems.
Shutdown commercial AM radio, really? With all of the Rush Limbaugh and other conservative ideologues on AM radio this would be a good thing.
Why didn't this guy or for that matter anyone else who wants to do something stupid with a digital camera just go buy a cheap one? Instead of detroying a $600 camera why not destroy a $90 Kodak CX6200? It is not like the CX6200 is hard to find, many local and online retailers carry at the price of $90. The fact that the CX6200 is a fixed focus camera with no optical zoom is not a disadvantage at these heights or in most applications similar to this.
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I think it is because they aren't really trolling and they know they won't be modded down for what they say because it really is funny, insightful, or informative.
There is a specification for transfering stereo audio over Bluetooth. I have a Bluewave from Macally, which is a set of Bluetooth headphones with a Bluetooth transmitter for an iPod. With a headphone extension cable the transmitter could be used with anything with a headphone jack. There are several problems with the Bluewave. One is that both the transmitter and the headphones each uses two AAA batteries which isn't enough power, as the set only lasts about four hours, but that is not the fault of the Bluetooth spec. At any rate, the worst thing that happened to me was that the connection was lost and all I heard was loud static. Turning the headset and transmitter off and then back on fixed it though. On the other hand, the headset of the Bluewave has a 1/8" jack so it could be used wirelessly with a cassette adaptor in a car, but why?
Embedded chips that act like credit cards won't ever happen because too many evangelical christians would never go for something embedded chips. This would be because they feel it is one of the signs of the "End times."
Also there is:
"Stuffit Expander"
Yes it is far from perfect. Yes, it does only decompress and Stuffit Standard, which will compress. Stuffit Expander will decompress many types of files. However, to get Stuffit Expander you have to give up your e-mail address and they will send you at least some spam, but Allume, the developer, from my previous experience is at least not totally scum.
Oh things do happen in North Dakota that taxpayers have had to pay for. The Red River which flows north between Minnesota and North Dakota and up into Canada and Hudson Bay, flooded about a few years ago. The flooding affected Fargo, a small city, among other places on the Red River.
At an aside as a resident of a suburb Minneapolis, Minnesota. We have the largest number of derechos from May to August in the US. A derecho is a long lived fast moving windstorm associated with a thunderstorm. Derechos for the most part are not exceptionally dangerous as like a tornado or hurricane, but a serious event can blow down power lines and trees. In 1998 after a derecho I remember visiting a house in a neighborhood that at one point probably had many large trees. One could determine this as there were many tall stumps that reached ten feet into the air with no branches or leaves.
I've always thought that games with random drops are cliche. For instance, in Guild Wars, a game I have been playing recently I have noticed this. Why was that Charr Blade Warrior carrying a magical Fire Staff? It's not like that charr was going to be doing anything with it.
The other end of the spectrum is Chrome, a lesser known FPS. In Chrome, dead bodies would have all of the weapons, ammo, and health packs that one would expect to find on them. This can get really wierd as the only way to get the best rifle or the rocket launcher is off of dead bodies. The only problem is that getting more ammo for these weapons must be done by killing other enemies that have these weapons.
Granted there are other problems with Chrome and other games like it. For instance, imagine you are guarding a room and someone trying to get into the room, opens the door and throws a grenade in. One of the guys in the room sees the grenade and yells "grenade." Do you, like the AI in Chrome would and stand still and wait for the grenade to go off and seriously injure you? Or do you run like hell away from the grenade, like any sane person would?
Back in '97 I had a short job where I was installing NT 4.0 on some machines. Many of these machines were only 100 MHz 486 based machines. Most only had 16MB of RAM, but that was upgraded to 32 MB in MOST cases. The worst machine, one that ran about as fast a slug, was a 66MHz 486. The machine only had three SIMM slots and 4MB soldered RAM. The only SIMMs available were 8MB. When upgraded the total amount of RAM on this poor machine was 28MB of RAM, the machine took several minutes to boot and was almost totally usable once booted. It was the best I could do for the poor user.
In Minnesota at least, riders are unconstitutional. Bills have to cover one subject and unreated items cannot be on the bill or else the rider item is declared unconstitutional. Two years ago gun rights extrememists in the Republican controlled Minnesota House attached a conceal carry law to a natural resources technical bill, alone the conceal carry bill would have never passed the Democrat held Senate. The rider itself may have even been written by the NRA. Last month the Minnesota Appeals Court ruled the rider unconstitutional. The courts have declared riders unconstitutional many times before for other riders. At any rate, new concealed carry bills have been introduced in the House and Senate, but the bills seems to have a tough time ahead of them. The Senate in Minnesota is still held by the Democrats and since last year's election the Republicans only hold a two seat majority in the House.
Without trying to start a long offtopic argument. I think Windows ME gets plenty of bad press that is somewhat undeserved. Windows ME isn't as bad when you have installed all of the updates from Windows Update. In fact, there are some nice features in ME that 98SE does not have, like System Restore. However, without the updates Windows ME is very unstable. When it has been updated, Windows ME, I think is as good as Windows 98SE. When it has not been updated, Windows ME is easily the worst version of Windows 9x. Granted, no OS should be shipped in the condition Windows ME was shipped in.
I have had Windows XP fail to activate several times. When XP fails to activate it shows a screen that asks for a new licence key. There is an option to call by phone for reactivation. Just call Microsoft from the number they give. This next part will be a huge pain. You will have to recite, by voice, a 40 digit number to an automated system. After that you may be sent to a real person to recite the number again, potentially. Next, they will ask if this is the only computer that that the copy of XP you are trying to activate is installed on. Then you get another 40 digit number to type in. Assuming all goes well after this number has been entered then XP will be activated again. This procedure is not so fun, but generally I find that I only have to reactivate each copy of XP once. Then, Microsoft gets the idea and future activations with that licence key is automatic.
No, but I have licked an RJ-11 connector while plugged into the wall, which is something I will never do again.
Yes diesel is really bad, but the pollution problem is being worked on. In the US diesel fuel has sulfur added to it for engine lubrication. Sulfur is supposed to be phased down from 500 ppm to 15 ppm in 2006. With that phase down, emission control systems can be added to reduce particulate matter emissions by 90% and Nitrous Oxides by 95%.
This Gigabyte card is kind of a hackish solution. The problem is is that high end PCIe video cards from nVidia and ATI are not available in large quantities to end users. If the new higher end cards from ATI, the X800, the X800XL, X850XT, and X800XT PE become available quickly about all this Gigabyte card will be good for is as a collector's item. However ATI has had one too many vapor launches this year, so I guess we will see.
At any rate, to reply to the parent. Some Matrox cards have two DVI ports and with a cable these cards can support up to three VGA ports. Matrox cards, however, are not known for their compatability or speed with games.
However, the ATI "Bullhead" reference motherboard for the RS480 Athlon 64 PCIe chipset has a DVI port on the board. The onboard video on the RS480 will continue to work with a video card in the 16x PCIe slot so you could have three DVI ports on such a system. I have no idea how 3D gaming would work on such a system though.
So what kind of game would have the descriptors: "Nudity", "Real Gambling", and "Some Adult Assistance May Be Needed"? Then again, maybe I don't want to see a game like this.
Nausea is not just limited to Half-Life 2, I have been playing Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, another Source engine game, and after playing that game for a while I feel a little nauseous. In VtM:B if one is in first person before entering combat, entering combat causes the camera to enter into third person, that may be what is causing my nausea. Then again, maybe the low fov in first person on VtM:B may be causing it too.
When I played No One Lives Forever 2 a while ago, which is another low fov game, and which gave me nausea too initially. After playing the game a while I just got used to the motion of the game and I no longer had any nausea when I played to NOLF2.
In doing some research on this post, one article suggested that no to do the activity that causes the nausea on an empty stomach. The article also suggested that it may help to eat a small, low-fat meal before the activity.
So, Jerry "Tycho" Holkins, ever wanted the Tycho nickname on Slashdot?
Crap man, all you really need to know about all of the Samsung CRT computer monitors from the last two years is to avoid all of them like the plague. From the low maximum resolutions on the last generation to the extremely poor color range and poor contrast on the current generation there is no really good reason to buy a Samsung CRT computer monitor. The most maddening thing about this is that the picture looks fine on the 26" Samsung HDTV looks fine. This is despite the fact that Samsung uses the same brandname, DynaFlat, for the tube in their CRT computer monitors, the picture on them looks much worse than the picture on their HDTV monitors.
The story is different on their LCDs and the other computer hardware Samsung manufactures, which is of decent quality, relatively reliable, and inexpensive. I use Samsung hard drives, optical drives, and memory and I think that they are great. Of the several that I own, none of them have failed on me, even after using some of them for over a year. In my experience, if a piece of computer hardware lasts a year, it is probably about time to move it to a slower computer or retire it all together. However, Samsung CRT computer monitors are absolutely terrible.
Wow, another off topic post by me, oops. Oh well, maybe this will end up on Google.
Barry Goldwater in '64. Seriously, Barry Goldwater actually advocated using low yield nuclear weapons to defoliate Vietnam to make it harder for the VC to hide.
Except for that lousy write cache hard drive corrupution bug in 7.5.3. Not to mention the Mac version Netscape 3 and its annoying habit of freezing for 30 seconds and then working fine until it freezes again. Ahh 1996 what a great year for computers.
Only the 8500, 9100, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, and the X800 series have component out. The 9000 or the 9200 series do not have component out. Most of the 9600SE and 9600 cards do not have fans. IIRC the X600SE and the X600 will have no fan either. A better option with HDTVs is hooking cards with DVI ports up to the DVI port on the HDTV. Only certain GPUs can send the proper preamble to an HDTV to allow the display of images. I know this is possible with the All in Wonder 9000Pro, and the AIW 9800. I would assume that this is the case with the 9000 and newer cards including the 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X800 series. I have no idea what the case is with DVI ports and HDTVs with the 7000, 7200, 7500, 8500, 9100, 9500, and 9700 series.
The seven county area metro area including Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota have a system where by a resident can bring just about any sort of junk including old electronics and have them taken care of. Some of this material costs money to recycle, but recycling old electronics, including monitors, are free as long as you are a private individual. I have used this extensively and there has been no cost to me for my old electronics.
There are Newton drivers for some 802.11b cards. However, the lack of cardbus slots on a Newton makes adding USB or Firewire impossible.
Then get an AIW 9000 or an AIW 9800. The AIW 9000 has a DVI port and requires no external power. However the AIW 9000 does not support component video out. However with the right cable the DVI port will work with an HDTV with a DVI port. The AIW 9800 has a DVI port, but has the external power requirement. The AIW 9800 also has component video out. Like the AIW 9000, with the right cable the DVI port will work with an HDTV with a DVI port. Samsung sells a 26" direct view HDTV with a DVI port and a built in ASTC/QAM/NTSC tuner. The Samsung TV shouldn't be too hard to find. If you want an AIW 9000 be quick about it. The replacement for the AIW 9000, the AIW 9200 only has a VGA port. However the AIW 9000 is still generally available.
Because of this layout even unshielded balanced feeders would radiate enough energy to cause interference to every home in the country, effectively shutting down not only the amatuer service, but also commecrial AM, aeronautical radionavigation and communication, maritime communication, as well as governmental communications systems.
Shutdown commercial AM radio, really? With all of the Rush Limbaugh and other conservative ideologues on AM radio this would be a good thing.
Why didn't this guy or for that matter anyone else who wants to do something stupid with a digital camera just go buy a cheap one? Instead of detroying a $600 camera why not destroy a $90 Kodak CX6200? It is not like the CX6200 is hard to find, many local and online retailers carry at the price of $90. The fact that the CX6200 is a fixed focus camera with no optical zoom is not a disadvantage at these heights or in most applications similar to this.