It was really the same size? Wow, that's pretty cool!
Heh, I'm still on the lookout. I have high hopes for a Tegra-powered netbook - a slimmed down GeForce 9400M would be excellent with a high-resolution screen, and I really like the long battery life ARM provides (although it'd be sorta useless to me unless I could get some form of Linux on it). An ION netbook wouldn't be so bad either, though, but I haven't yet noticed any of them with a high resolution.
The Sony VAIO P? Yeah, looks cool, but too many pixels (never thought I'd say that!), too expensive, and, I think, too small.
In fact, the predecessor to the 2140, the 2133, packed a 1280x768 resolution into an 8.9" screen. It was awesome, although somewhat eyestrain inducing. It probably would've been better with a slightly larger screen (9.3", perhaps?). IMHO, even 10" is getting too large for it to be considered a netbook.
Interestingly enough, the 2133 also had the best keyboard I've yet tried in a netbook, and the speakers were fairly crisp (although lacking bottom-end). Unfortunately, it suffered from ergonomic issues (the screen wouldn't tilt back far enough so to use it on your lap, you had to kinda tilt it back yourself - very awkward), and the usual HP how-much-longer-do-I-have-before-this-dies-on-me? issue (only five days, in my case).
Randall attaches a text comment to each comic that appears as a tooltip when you leave your cursor sitting on the image for a few seconds. It's almost always directly related to the comic, although it may or may not be directly related to the story presented.
Don't blame Vista until you've heard better results on that laptop in a different operating system (KNOPPIX boot disc, perhaps?). The laptop's amplifier probably just isn't that great - a fairly common issue in cheaper laptops.
In addition, they should review apps (not sure if they do this now or not, if they do their criteria are laughable) before allowing them on to the site...
Because all we need is another App Store.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that there should be better control over Facebook apps, especially from the privacy standpoint. However, Apple is doing a fine job of demonstrating that one central point of review isn't the greatest way to go.
And for the love of God, instead of making every stupid little quiz a separate app, Facebook should maintain its own in-house developed "quiz app" and allow random idiots to submit quizzes to it.
This especially irks me. There used to be several all-in-one quiz apps, but they seem to have mostly disappeared off the face of the map with the advent of the New Facebook. I should check the app ToS and see if there was a change prohibiting this sort of thing.
I have been intending to: it seems everything I read about CryENGINE also makes some comment about Far Cry being awesome. I think I might just go find a copy, now - my list of games to play is shorter now than it has been for a while.
The game you are looking for is Crysis, which unlike Far Cry 2 is actually developed by the same studio as Far Cry
I haven't played either of the Far Cry games, but I have played Crysis, and I was disappointed with it in comparison to what I've heard of Far Cry. While it was fairly impressive visually and felt fairly satisfying to play, I found it very mediocre in terms of gameplay - they took an engine capable of massive maps and stuffed it into an extremely linear, scripted game with very few opportunities to play around with and push against the engine's constraints.
Mod parent up. Turn on encryption, configure the upload limit appropriately for your connection speed, then just use it. Maybe use the existing FTP or even just e-mail to send the.torrent to the client machine, then remote desktop* to start it downloading if there's nobody around to do it. As the parent said, the built-in file integrity checks will ensure that the files are the same on both ends and BitTorrent should be able to effectively use as much of your bandwidth as possible.
--- Mr. DOS
* uTorrent's** web interface would work well too.
** Ugh, Slashdot, support UTF-8 characters already***...
*** Yes, I know about the whole control character thing.
I'll just save my CA$28.92 and use the cross-platform AdBlock Plus, thank you very much. Admittedly, it does only work in Firefox, but I don't use any other browsers, and none of the applications I use regularly have forced ads.
Actually, the fact that AdMuncher can block ads inside other programs is very cool, even if they probably are just blocking requests to certain remote hosts.
...the 13 inch ones just don't feel priced right for what you're getting.
I'd say they do - I'm not a fan of Apple, but you try finding another 13.3" notebook with a graphics chip any better than an Intel GMA and with that high an advertised battery life (they say "7 hours"; I'm guessing that means it'll get at least 4-5 hours). It's not really possible to find that level of component power in a size that small. The major downside I can see to it is cooling (or lack thereof); Apple better have figured this out properly or that machine will literally be smokin' (or at least, anything you leave on it will be).
I used to use MultipleIEs, but it doesn't seem to work properly in conjunction with IE8 - form input in IE6 has issues. Thanks very much for that link - it'll definitely be useful if I ever have to do any web development on Windows again!
That reminds me, I have a T3100e as well. I actually used it as a roundabout way for getting stuff onto the T1000 - the T1000 only had a 720KB floppy drive, and the floppy drive in my main machine at the time didn't like 720KB floppies (just 1.44MB ones), so I'd copy files from the 1.44MB floppy to the RAM disk on the 3100e, then put them onto a 720KB floppy (formatted on either the T1000 or T3100e) so the T1000 could read them.
Alas, there's not a whole lot I can do with it, because the hard drive's dead. At some point, I should pull it open and see what sort of replacement it'd take. I got part if it apart once and I seem to remember the hard drive casing looking like it's a 3.5" drive, but I don't know what sort of interface it would be.
I have a Toshiba T1000, which would now be 21-22 years old. I have a lot of other old equipment, including a generic XT clone from the early 80's (so, about 25 years old) and its CGA monitor, oh, and my NES, which would be about the same age (although I'm not sure if consoles count in this discussion).
The oldest networking equipment I have is probably a U.S. Robotics 56k modem that used X.2 or whatever they called it, not V90/V92. Wonderful modem - even if it does only connect at 28.8kbps now due to the fact nothing is using its native protocol, when using it, I had the fewer dropped connections than with any other modem.
Right. Because bureaucratic stupidity never results in technology (in this case, an inkjet printer, where it should've been laser and laminated) being used inappropriately.
I poked around on Newegg a bit, and found the SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3850. It's $100 plus shipping, but it has dual-link DVI and it's almost undoubtedly more powerful than your existing card (which is nice, even if you don't need it). The VisionTek Radeon HD 2400PRO would probably work too, if you'd rather not spend $100, but there seem to be a lot of complaints about driver compatibility.
ATI (well, ASUS) manufactures an AGP version of the Radeon HD 3450, however, I don't know how it stacks up to the AGP version of the 6200.
Actually, for general comparison, I have a PCI-e Gigabyte Radeon HD 3450 in my work machine, and while I haven't run benchmarks, the PCI (vanilla PCI, not PCI-e) eVGA GeForce 6200 in one of my home machines seems to work better... it could just be drivers, though.
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It was really the same size? Wow, that's pretty cool!
Heh, I'm still on the lookout. I have high hopes for a Tegra-powered netbook - a slimmed down GeForce 9400M would be excellent with a high-resolution screen, and I really like the long battery life ARM provides (although it'd be sorta useless to me unless I could get some form of Linux on it). An ION netbook wouldn't be so bad either, though, but I haven't yet noticed any of them with a high resolution.
The Sony VAIO P? Yeah, looks cool, but too many pixels (never thought I'd say that!), too expensive, and, I think, too small.
--- Mr. DOS
In fact, the predecessor to the 2140, the 2133, packed a 1280x768 resolution into an 8.9" screen. It was awesome, although somewhat eyestrain inducing. It probably would've been better with a slightly larger screen (9.3", perhaps?). IMHO, even 10" is getting too large for it to be considered a netbook.
Interestingly enough, the 2133 also had the best keyboard I've yet tried in a netbook, and the speakers were fairly crisp (although lacking bottom-end). Unfortunately, it suffered from ergonomic issues (the screen wouldn't tilt back far enough so to use it on your lap, you had to kinda tilt it back yourself - very awkward), and the usual HP how-much-longer-do-I-have-before-this-dies-on-me? issue (only five days, in my case).
--- Mr. DOS
Randall attaches a text comment to each comic that appears as a tooltip when you leave your cursor sitting on the image for a few seconds. It's almost always directly related to the comic, although it may or may not be directly related to the story presented.
--- Mr. DOS
Don't blame Vista until you've heard better results on that laptop in a different operating system (KNOPPIX boot disc, perhaps?). The laptop's amplifier probably just isn't that great - a fairly common issue in cheaper laptops.
--- Mr. DOS
No, but they'd at least like a better-than-0% chance of rescuing astronauts if the launch fails.
--- Mr. DOS
Because all we need is another App Store.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that there should be better control over Facebook apps, especially from the privacy standpoint. However, Apple is doing a fine job of demonstrating that one central point of review isn't the greatest way to go.
This especially irks me. There used to be several all-in-one quiz apps, but they seem to have mostly disappeared off the face of the map with the advent of the New Facebook. I should check the app ToS and see if there was a change prohibiting this sort of thing.
--- Mr. DOS
I have been intending to: it seems everything I read about CryENGINE also makes some comment about Far Cry being awesome. I think I might just go find a copy, now - my list of games to play is shorter now than it has been for a while.
--- Mr. DOS
I haven't played either of the Far Cry games, but I have played Crysis, and I was disappointed with it in comparison to what I've heard of Far Cry. While it was fairly impressive visually and felt fairly satisfying to play, I found it very mediocre in terms of gameplay - they took an engine capable of massive maps and stuffed it into an extremely linear, scripted game with very few opportunities to play around with and push against the engine's constraints.
--- Mr. DOS
Here's one you're missing: the OHRRPGCE, an open-source RPG engine good for creating SNES-style 2D games.
--- Mr. DOS
Directly related item on The Daily WTF.
The more fine-grained the requirements you can punch into your brute forcer, the faster the hash goes down...
--- Mr. DOS
...user gets infected with spyware, is surprised when information is stolen as a result? Y'know, it's called spyware for a reason.
--- Mr. DOS
Yeah. Ctrl+T Ctrl+PgUp Ctrl+W. That's so much easier than Ctrl+W.
--- Mr. DOS
Mod parent up. Turn on encryption, configure the upload limit appropriately for your connection speed, then just use it. Maybe use the existing FTP or even just e-mail to send the .torrent to the client machine, then remote desktop* to start it downloading if there's nobody around to do it. As the parent said, the built-in file integrity checks will ensure that the files are the same on both ends and BitTorrent should be able to effectively use as much of your bandwidth as possible.
--- Mr. DOS
* uTorrent's** web interface would work well too.
** Ugh, Slashdot, support UTF-8 characters already***...
*** Yes, I know about the whole control character thing.
I'll just save my CA$28.92 and use the cross-platform AdBlock Plus, thank you very much. Admittedly, it does only work in Firefox, but I don't use any other browsers, and none of the applications I use regularly have forced ads.
Actually, the fact that AdMuncher can block ads inside other programs is very cool, even if they probably are just blocking requests to certain remote hosts.
--- Mr. DOS
Yeah. Because Disney's never gotten in the way of Pixar.
--- Mr. DOS
And haven't there been at least two major versions of NTFS so far, too? (NTFS4 for NT 4.0, and NTFS5 for 2000/XP/Vista/7.)
--- Mr. DOS
I'd say they do - I'm not a fan of Apple, but you try finding another 13.3" notebook with a graphics chip any better than an Intel GMA and with that high an advertised battery life (they say "7 hours"; I'm guessing that means it'll get at least 4-5 hours). It's not really possible to find that level of component power in a size that small. The major downside I can see to it is cooling (or lack thereof); Apple better have figured this out properly or that machine will literally be smokin' (or at least, anything you leave on it will be).
--- Mr. DOS
I used to use MultipleIEs, but it doesn't seem to work properly in conjunction with IE8 - form input in IE6 has issues. Thanks very much for that link - it'll definitely be useful if I ever have to do any web development on Windows again!
--- Mr. DOS
That reminds me, I have a T3100e as well. I actually used it as a roundabout way for getting stuff onto the T1000 - the T1000 only had a 720KB floppy drive, and the floppy drive in my main machine at the time didn't like 720KB floppies (just 1.44MB ones), so I'd copy files from the 1.44MB floppy to the RAM disk on the 3100e, then put them onto a 720KB floppy (formatted on either the T1000 or T3100e) so the T1000 could read them.
Alas, there's not a whole lot I can do with it, because the hard drive's dead. At some point, I should pull it open and see what sort of replacement it'd take. I got part if it apart once and I seem to remember the hard drive casing looking like it's a 3.5" drive, but I don't know what sort of interface it would be.
I'll stop rambling now, shall I? ;)
--- Mr. DOS
I have a Toshiba T1000, which would now be 21-22 years old. I have a lot of other old equipment, including a generic XT clone from the early 80's (so, about 25 years old) and its CGA monitor, oh, and my NES, which would be about the same age (although I'm not sure if consoles count in this discussion).
The oldest networking equipment I have is probably a U.S. Robotics 56k modem that used X.2 or whatever they called it, not V90/V92. Wonderful modem - even if it does only connect at 28.8kbps now due to the fact nothing is using its native protocol, when using it, I had the fewer dropped connections than with any other modem.
--- Mr. DOS
Right. Because bureaucratic stupidity never results in technology (in this case, an inkjet printer, where it should've been laser and laminated) being used inappropriately.
--- Mr. DOS
"Yes, I saw your new hip! It looks great!"
--- Mr. DOS
I poked around on Newegg a bit, and found the SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3850. It's $100 plus shipping, but it has dual-link DVI and it's almost undoubtedly more powerful than your existing card (which is nice, even if you don't need it). The VisionTek Radeon HD 2400PRO would probably work too, if you'd rather not spend $100, but there seem to be a lot of complaints about driver compatibility.
Now I want one of the HD 3850's.
--- Mr. DOS
ATI (well, ASUS) manufactures an AGP version of the Radeon HD 3450, however, I don't know how it stacks up to the AGP version of the 6200.
Actually, for general comparison, I have a PCI-e Gigabyte Radeon HD 3450 in my work machine, and while I haven't run benchmarks, the PCI (vanilla PCI, not PCI-e) eVGA GeForce 6200 in one of my home machines seems to work better... it could just be drivers, though.
--- Mr. DOS
Outlook's pst files being an entirely different kettle of fish (historically, anyway)...
--- Mr. DOS