I get the impression that the issue with the parent is regarding the motherboard, not the processor. HP have a habit of having their own bespoke boards in their desktop machines, more often than not with custom BIOS. Unless you have an HP computer (or Dell, Acer, $vendor machine) your situation will more than likely differ to theirs.
Why is it so scary? Oh no, the US wasn't chosen by God. Neither was the UK, and my life didn't just change for the worse. In fact, it's no different than it was 10 minutes ago when I didn't know that.
Or maybe I just knew that it makes no difference. He loves us all, as you all know, if we're going to get into a theological debate.
You'd think so! Plenty of preppy school-kids wearing red hoodies with CCCP emblazoned across the front.
By they way, 90% of them look at you blankly when you point out the irony of wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt printed by a big-brand company. No, I don't think that point is off-topic.
You can't even lie with the correct facts to back it up! If Jesus was around in the 1790's, either your calendar is completely off, or those folks waiting for the Second Coming are 220 years too late!
No, please feel free to re-write the Bible to have occurred a century after the Renaissance!
It's not about telling a lie until it becomes truth, it's about adjusting of truth itself. There is not lie because there is no record of any contrary opinion or fact. That was the Ministry of Truth's part to play; Adjust the facts to fit the truth.
Think of a world where Wikipedia is the only source of information to the world. It lists dates of wars, deaths and births, marriages, news items, and every other historically significant event to anybody. Now, imagine that it's controlled by the Government, and only they can edit it. You now have the only source of verifiable information in the country* and nobody can prove any different from the party line. You have your computer at home to access the information, but it's a dumb terminal with no other output than the monitor. You can't save information locally, just view it directly from the new Wikipedia's servers.
* Remember that 1984 focussed solely on Great Britain, aka Airstrip One. You never actually know if it's actually a base of operations for the US; This could also be a fabrication of The Party.
And when they can't get Elements for free, they'll look at Paint.NET, GIMP (if it's renamed. Good luck getting clueless Christian mom to install that on her laptop) or another alternative. Hell, F-Spot does a lot of the things almost everyone wants to do with an image (resize, crop, red-eye removal).
Hell, there's even a Linux port of Paint.NET! It's called Printa, it's not complete yet, but it is still looking very good.
WoW at least has simulated daytime / nighttime which corresponds to the geographically local time of the day. Does the fact that the sky looks dark on the screen (meaning less irradiation of your eyes) make any difference?Would installing F.lux make a difference?
Considering that the only time I get to play any games is between two and three hours before going to bed, "just turn it off" isn't an option if I want to continue with that particular hobby. Which I do.
$15/month to be able to shout BOOM HEADSHOT! at your own monitor with no real-life benefit (such as knowing that you're an uber-l33t twitch gaming God, ready to take on Fatal1ty / Kapitol at the next World Cyber Games) seems a little... Well, let's just say I don't feel so bad about paying roughly the same to play WoW anymore. At least it's me being the nerdy (let capable) gamer.
Why doesn't somebody come up with a system that can host games locally? That would totally cure the input lag issue.
Hey, maybe they could offer a monthly fee instead of making you pay up front for the hardware, and at the end (when you've paid the value of the system) you get to keep it!
It's a matter of scale of the observer. The sun is minuscule compared to the galaxy. Some slightly less massive explosions are equally impressive to a person of Kim Jong Il's stature.
It took you a decade and someone else telling you to figure out that the top brass don't want to read 30 page reports and have their decisions made for them? Wow.
The way this is supposed to work is: 1. You do the donkey work. Your 100 page report is handed to your boss, he hears your presentation, and he goes "Good work, very informative. I'll be sure to remember this during contract negotiation." 2. Your boss cuts out the long words, the technical jargon, uses words like "tubes" and lots of car analogies, and makes his own presentation. He takes that to his boss, who says "Good stuff! Well, I was lead to believe there's a free lunch... Let's discuss it while we eat." 3. That guy writes a 3 minute power point speech, a couple of presentation slides with swooshing sounds on the transitions to illustrate how fast the thing will be (No, he doesn't know what thing that is) and he goes to the COO. He says "We should go with this plan. I'll make it look like it was your idea. SHINY SHINY SHINY!" and it happens.
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I get the impression that the issue with the parent is regarding the motherboard, not the processor. HP have a habit of having their own bespoke boards in their desktop machines, more often than not with custom BIOS. Unless you have an HP computer (or Dell, Acer, $vendor machine) your situation will more than likely differ to theirs.
Why is it so scary? Oh no, the US wasn't chosen by God. Neither was the UK, and my life didn't just change for the worse. In fact, it's no different than it was 10 minutes ago when I didn't know that.
Or maybe I just knew that it makes no difference. He loves us all, as you all know, if we're going to get into a theological debate.
You'd think so! Plenty of preppy school-kids wearing red hoodies with CCCP emblazoned across the front.
By they way, 90% of them look at you blankly when you point out the irony of wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt printed by a big-brand company. No, I don't think that point is off-topic.
You can't even lie with the correct facts to back it up! If Jesus was around in the 1790's, either your calendar is completely off, or those folks waiting for the Second Coming are 220 years too late!
No, please feel free to re-write the Bible to have occurred a century after the Renaissance!
It's not about telling a lie until it becomes truth, it's about adjusting of truth itself. There is not lie because there is no record of any contrary opinion or fact. That was the Ministry of Truth's part to play; Adjust the facts to fit the truth.
Think of a world where Wikipedia is the only source of information to the world. It lists dates of wars, deaths and births, marriages, news items, and every other historically significant event to anybody. Now, imagine that it's controlled by the Government, and only they can edit it. You now have the only source of verifiable information in the country* and nobody can prove any different from the party line. You have your computer at home to access the information, but it's a dumb terminal with no other output than the monitor. You can't save information locally, just view it directly from the new Wikipedia's servers.
* Remember that 1984 focussed solely on Great Britain, aka Airstrip One. You never actually know if it's actually a base of operations for the US; This could also be a fabrication of The Party.
And when they can't get Elements for free, they'll look at Paint.NET, GIMP (if it's renamed. Good luck getting clueless Christian mom to install that on her laptop) or another alternative. Hell, F-Spot does a lot of the things almost everyone wants to do with an image (resize, crop, red-eye removal).
Hell, there's even a Linux port of Paint.NET! It's called Printa, it's not complete yet, but it is still looking very good.
Actually, Frostwire is a Limewire clone. Supports the "Turbo" features of Limewire without the paying, and also some extra privacy features I think.
I've not used it for... Wow, well over a year now.
WoW at least has simulated daytime / nighttime which corresponds to the geographically local time of the day. Does the fact that the sky looks dark on the screen (meaning less irradiation of your eyes) make any difference?Would installing F.lux make a difference?
Considering that the only time I get to play any games is between two and three hours before going to bed, "just turn it off" isn't an option if I want to continue with that particular hobby. Which I do.
Holy crap that website is appalling! It reminds me of Gorilla Mask... SO MUCH FLASH!
BTW - go to EA or Respawned and I'll take it all back...
No, EA with their always-on DRM can stick it where it'll make it uncomfortable to sit down too. I've had enough of both of them.
Fuck 'em.
As this will be a nerd banquet, I expect tortilla chips, plenty of salsa, fizzy caffeinated drinks, and most importantly of all pizza.
Are you getting a little worried, my eminently nibble-able friend?
$15/month to be able to shout BOOM HEADSHOT! at your own monitor with no real-life benefit (such as knowing that you're an uber-l33t twitch gaming God, ready to take on Fatal1ty / Kapitol at the next World Cyber Games) seems a little... Well, let's just say I don't feel so bad about paying roughly the same to play WoW anymore. At least it's me being the nerdy (let capable) gamer.
Did you send the game back for a full refund? It sounds pretty "unfit for purpose" to me.
Want breaks that don't squeel like a stuck pig when you pull up? Sorry, we didn't make the pads. Or the shoes.
I'm posting from work, so I can't really make an "I like being stoned" joke.
Oh.
There is no vehicular emergency which can't be escaped from by properly applying a hammer to a window.
Don't leave home without one, kids.
Will asking it to render the Sax solo at the beginning of Baker Street cause it to crap out?
Indeed. Surely drilling into the same pocket from another location will significantly reduce the pressure at this exit, making capping much easier?
Am I missing something?
No person suffering from the condition can spell dexlicksick properly.
(For those who don't speak Russian, Pravda means "Truth")
(Incidentally, Sputnik means "Satellite" - They're not too imaginative.)
Why doesn't somebody come up with a system that can host games locally? That would totally cure the input lag issue.
Hey, maybe they could offer a monthly fee instead of making you pay up front for the hardware, and at the end (when you've paid the value of the system) you get to keep it!
Oh boy, I'm going to make millio... Waitasecond.
It's a matter of scale of the observer. The sun is minuscule compared to the galaxy. Some slightly less massive explosions are equally impressive to a person of Kim Jong Il's stature.
you could nuke one of them and everything would still be up.
How dramatic. The upstream ISP could also disconnect one for lack of payment of bills, but that wouldn't be nearly as exciting as nuking it, would it!
Bravo on designing in redundancy, though. Maybe Amazon is hiring...
I'm sorry, I don't get the joke. I must have mist something.
It totally works.
It took you a decade and someone else telling you to figure out that the top brass don't want to read 30 page reports and have their decisions made for them? Wow.
The way this is supposed to work is:
1. You do the donkey work. Your 100 page report is handed to your boss, he hears your presentation, and he goes "Good work, very informative. I'll be sure to remember this during contract negotiation."
2. Your boss cuts out the long words, the technical jargon, uses words like "tubes" and lots of car analogies, and makes his own presentation. He takes that to his boss, who says "Good stuff! Well, I was lead to believe there's a free lunch... Let's discuss it while we eat."
3. That guy writes a 3 minute power point speech, a couple of presentation slides with swooshing sounds on the transitions to illustrate how fast the thing will be (No, he doesn't know what thing that is) and he goes to the COO. He says "We should go with this plan. I'll make it look like it was your idea. SHINY SHINY SHINY!" and it happens.
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