Find a good sniping site. If you find a good site lots of times they will allow contingencies (if you don't win on one auction, bid on the next, etc). Bid low but reasonable on many auctions for the same time and forget about it until you get the email saying you won or lost. Another useful tip is to search for buy-it-now auctions that are in your price range.
The only real issue with ebay is you have to watch out for the jerks that jack up the shipping and handling and sell low.
the only way anyone can attempt to compete against Microsoft is for thousands of developers all over the world to spend billions dollars worth of man hours developing an operating system and then give it away for free.
I personally find myself playing the ps3 more than the wii. Both are incredibly fun systems. My GF loves that she can beat my ass in bowling. My problem is not wanting to actually get off the couch to use the wii and really you are more consistent with the controller movements if you aren't sitting.
I can usually find some consistency with the controls in golf. Everywhere except putting. I guess putting has always been the hard part of golf though;)
and they both rock:) They are like apples and oranges when you try to compare them so don't even bother. The part I like the best is that I can have this much fun without giving Microsoft a f**king dime.
Every time I get excited about desktop linux (dapper drake) something happens to completely let me down (edgy eft). I've been using linux (desktop and server) 40hrs a week for the last 10yrs. You would think 10yrs would be plenty of time for a desktop operating system to mature and pretty much be rock solid. That isn't the case with the linux desktop. Can you imagine paying for an operating system where basic functionality breaks from one release to the next? No way. I've always been pretty critical of Microsoft and their operating systems but to be completely honest, linux on the desktop makes Microsoft look good:( Why do I still use it as my work desktop? I have no idea. I've always been a strong linux supporter and I truly believe that no server operating system out there comes close to a well configured Debian install. For the desktop though? I think its years away if ever:(. Don't mean to be such a downer about this stuff but god its depressing.
That is since March 6th of 2006. I've been losing interest in the game steadily over the last couple months though and its pretty much peaked and I'm no longer logging in regularly. I removed my credit card info and won't be renewing next month.
I bought an area-51 a few years ago and its hands down the best computer I've ever owned. I've probably built around 2 dozen computers in my lifetime (handful for myself and the rest for friends and family) and this machine's stability is just completely amazing. I've never had a single problem with it or had to use the warranty while it still had one.
The problem with modern hardware is that everyone is trying to make the highest performing components for a computer. What they aren't doing is making sure there components play nice with other components. With the alienware stuff you are paying for testing, styling and insurance that the system is made with the newest/best quality parts and that they all play nicely.
Will I buy another one? Probably not cuz their prices are just insane now days. Back when I bought mine I priced the same components and I was only paying a few hundred dollars as a premium. It was totally worth the money after the fiasco I had on the home system I built a year earlier. So don't jump to bash Alienware so quickly unless you know what you are talking about.
you have to play both games though to know what this guy is goin through losing his wife and baby in the first game and then having his main squeeze die in his arms at the end of the second. Followed immediately in the credits by great song 'Late Goodbye' by Poets of the Fall. Not what i'd call 'crying' but I'll admit I got alittle misty:)
people who put their lives at risk doing stuff like that eventually will eventually pay for it. i'm sure his hands and half his face were worth that risk to him. if not he's a ****ing moron.
atleast I won't miss anything cool while I'm dead. What you don't want to happen is for you to the only one who dies. You know you are missing some fun shit for sure.
We moved from Solaris 8 on E420R and Netra T105's to Debian Sarge on Dell 2850 and 1850's. Sarge installed without a hitch on these machines (granted I'm using the default 2.4 sarge kernels and not the 2.6 addon kernels) and most/all have been up without a failure/restart for nearly a year now.
I was just about ready to hit the checkout button on a m5500 from alienware and thought I'd verify the weight on the machine again. Yesterday a live sales agent told me it was 5-6lbs. I talked to another live sales agent and they told me 7-8lbs. WTF?!?! I basically told them that I just cancelled my checkout and that they need to get their shit together and decide how much their portable products weigh.
So as a segway does anyone know of a light laptop 5-6lbs that has atleast a GeForce Go 6600 in it?
'requires some pretty advanced math skills' thats the phrase SE's use to scare normal people into thinking they can't program. less programmers = more demand = better salaries. I'm glad people are scared shitless of computers it just means more money for me.:)
We design applications so that they function entirely with JS disabled. All data that is validated on the front end is re-validated on the backend along with session state verification. If you aren't doing this you are going to get what you deserve in the end.
blockbuster should have been doing this before netflix. Plain and simple. How many mom and pop video rental places did Blockbuster run into the ground? Blockbuster didn't want to do online rentals they were forced to by the competition. This time though the competition had a good idea and patented the idea. I do however agree that this kind of stuff should only be able to last like 7-8 years. I think netflix is wasting their time with this one as well. Brick and mortal rental of anything that can fit into the US mail was bound to go tits up sooner or later. I know lots of people who like blockbuster's unlimited instore rental deal though. They live near them though which makes all the difference.
Free software isn't about 'I'll write the code and you throw money at me.' There are lots of ways to get a regular cash flow going. Open up a webbrowser and visit any one of the dozens of projects out there for plenty of ideas. First off would be getting some kind of non-profit organization setup for OpenBSD/SSH. These guys are just being lazy.
I think EQ actually allows you to create macros in game for this kinda stuff and bind them to hot buttons. hell they even allow to you to activate a hotbutton via a macro lol:) Whats the big freaking deal?
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Find a good sniping site. If you find a good site lots of times they will allow contingencies (if you don't win on one auction, bid on the next, etc). Bid low but reasonable on many auctions for the same time and forget about it until you get the email saying you won or lost. Another useful tip is to search for buy-it-now auctions that are in your price range.
The only real issue with ebay is you have to watch out for the jerks that jack up the shipping and handling and sell low.
the only way anyone can attempt to compete against Microsoft is for thousands of developers all over the world to spend billions dollars worth of man hours developing an operating system and then give it away for free.
I personally find myself playing the ps3 more than the wii. Both are incredibly fun systems. My GF loves that she can beat my ass in bowling. My problem is not wanting to actually get off the couch to use the wii and really you are more consistent with the controller movements if you aren't sitting.
I can usually find some consistency with the controls in golf. Everywhere except putting. I guess putting has always been the hard part of golf though ;)
and they both rock :) They are like apples and oranges when you try to compare them so don't even bother. The part I like the best is that I can have this much fun without giving Microsoft a f**king dime.
yeah like infighting hasn't been happening in the linux community /slap
Every time I get excited about desktop linux (dapper drake) something happens to completely let me down (edgy eft). I've been using linux (desktop and server) 40hrs a week for the last 10yrs. You would think 10yrs would be plenty of time for a desktop operating system to mature and pretty much be rock solid. That isn't the case with the linux desktop. Can you imagine paying for an operating system where basic functionality breaks from one release to the next? No way. I've always been pretty critical of Microsoft and their operating systems but to be completely honest, linux on the desktop makes Microsoft look good :( Why do I still use it as my work desktop? I have no idea. I've always been a strong linux supporter and I truly believe that no server operating system out there comes close to a well configured Debian install. For the desktop though? I think its years away if ever :(. Don't mean to be such a downer about this stuff but god its depressing.
That is since March 6th of 2006. I've been losing interest in the game steadily over the last couple months though and its pretty much peaked and I'm no longer logging in regularly. I removed my credit card info and won't be renewing next month.
Back when you could get new cd's for 11 or 12 bucks I bought em like crazy. Now days? not so much.
read your blog post. yikes dude, sounds like the company has taken a shit in the last few years since I got mine. :(
I bought an area-51 a few years ago and its hands down the best computer I've ever owned. I've probably built around 2 dozen computers in my lifetime (handful for myself and the rest for friends and family) and this machine's stability is just completely amazing. I've never had a single problem with it or had to use the warranty while it still had one.
The problem with modern hardware is that everyone is trying to make the highest performing components for a computer. What they aren't doing is making sure there components play nice with other components. With the alienware stuff you are paying for testing, styling and insurance that the system is made with the newest/best quality parts and that they all play nicely.
Will I buy another one? Probably not cuz their prices are just insane now days. Back when I bought mine I priced the same components and I was only paying a few hundred dollars as a premium. It was totally worth the money after the fiasco I had on the home system I built a year earlier. So don't jump to bash Alienware so quickly unless you know what you are talking about.
you have to play both games though to know what this guy is goin through losing his wife and baby in the first game and then having his main squeeze die in his arms at the end of the second. Followed immediately in the credits by great song 'Late Goodbye' by Poets of the Fall. Not what i'd call 'crying' but I'll admit I got alittle misty :)
just kidding .. no really he is .. i'm just messing with you .. but seriously yeah.
people who put their lives at risk doing stuff like that eventually will eventually pay for it. i'm sure his hands and half his face were worth that risk to him. if not he's a ****ing moron.
atleast I won't miss anything cool while I'm dead. What you don't want to happen is for you to the only one who dies. You know you are missing some fun shit for sure.
We moved from Solaris 8 on E420R and Netra T105's to Debian Sarge on Dell 2850 and 1850's. Sarge installed without a hitch on these machines (granted I'm using the default 2.4 sarge kernels and not the 2.6 addon kernels) and most/all have been up without a failure/restart for nearly a year now.
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from Schappell Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrodamus) when I read his predictions.
I was just about ready to hit the checkout button on a m5500 from alienware and thought I'd verify the weight on the machine again. Yesterday a live sales agent told me it was 5-6lbs. I talked to another live sales agent and they told me 7-8lbs. WTF?!?! I basically told them that I just cancelled my checkout and that they need to get their shit together and decide how much their portable products weigh.
So as a segway does anyone know of a light laptop 5-6lbs that has atleast a GeForce Go 6600 in it?
'requires some pretty advanced math skills' thats the phrase SE's use to scare normal people into thinking they can't program. less programmers = more demand = better salaries. I'm glad people are scared shitless of computers it just means more money for me. :)
whatcha gunna do now that suse is moving to Gnome as the primary desktop?
We design applications so that they function entirely with JS disabled. All data that is validated on the front end is re-validated on the backend along with session state verification. If you aren't doing this you are going to get what you deserve in the end.
blockbuster should have been doing this before netflix. Plain and simple. How many mom and pop video rental places did Blockbuster run into the ground? Blockbuster didn't want to do online rentals they were forced to by the competition. This time though the competition had a good idea and patented the idea. I do however agree that this kind of stuff should only be able to last like 7-8 years. I think netflix is wasting their time with this one as well. Brick and mortal rental of anything that can fit into the US mail was bound to go tits up sooner or later. I know lots of people who like blockbuster's unlimited instore rental deal though. They live near them though which makes all the difference.
Free software isn't about 'I'll write the code and you throw money at me.' There are lots of ways to get a regular cash flow going. Open up a webbrowser and visit any one of the dozens of projects out there for plenty of ideas. First off would be getting some kind of non-profit organization setup for OpenBSD/SSH. These guys are just being lazy.
I think EQ actually allows you to create macros in game for this kinda stuff and bind them to hot buttons. hell they even allow to you to activate a hotbutton via a macro lol :) Whats the big freaking deal?