I'll give you a hint that has worked for me. Dont ever tell the girl right away that you're in the computer field or math. Tell them you're in business, or marketing or something international. Not to impress them, but just to get the conversation flowing. Later on, you can tell them that you're involved with computers. And don't worry about the details, just ask her to tell you about herself.
---stars and galaxies separated by vast voids.' Thereby creating a 'structure' to the universe -- a kiddush cup. '...finds that the first stars---the forebears of all subsequent generations of stars and of life itself---were fully formed remarkably early, only about 400 million years after inflation. This is called the era of reionization, the point when the light from the first stars ionized hydrogen atoms, liberating electrons from the protons.
Fantastic! I was looking for a pickup line for tonight!
That's wonderful news sir. You've just won yourself an invitation to come to my place of work and train 200 40+ year olds to do the same. Wow, that'll save us tons of cash!
Why do none of the major gaming sites never mention Daggerfall? (ES2) Sure it would randomly crash upon walking through doors, but it had boobies!!!
And for that reason, isn't walking into a tavern room to find a nude lady in it the most awesome thing that can happen in a game? I wonder why no normal games have more casual encounters with nude NPCs?
An aquaintance of mine bought a Media Center PC since it looked really nice in the store, but has not to date been able to set it up as a media center. It is basically a virus hive for his teen daughter. I know us nerds can figure out how to make a PC like that work, but does anyone have any experience where a typical user successfully installed one of those beasts?
Why would they try to make it compatible with less than 5% of the market? If both sets of numbers are to be believed, vastly more iPods are connected to windows PCs than Macs.
While it is true that you don't need to buy RAM from Apple, (I don't myself) it is important to get quality RAM from other manufacturers. The cheapest of the cheap might not be accepted by OS X. A couple of bad RAM related crashes teach you really quick that saving 25 bucks on RAM isn't worth it...
Well, you're right, I don't have a crystal ball, but since we're just speculating here I thought it'd be OK to assume analysts' predictions.
But even if you disregard the price, since Sony won't be the only manufacturer of Blu-Ray, the format is looking less and less shiny. From the past experience (betamax, minidisc, memory stick, atrac) maybe consumers should automatically pick their competition as the winning standard...
You're right about the Hollywood movies sucking, but think about going on a vacation and recording beautiful sunsets, scenery and architecture in HD. Then you can stick it in your PC and edit it and have a nice little DVD with slideshow photos all in high-res to remember it by.
I agree with you, I could care less for commercial movies, but it would be nice to make home movies in HD.
For a while, Blu-Ray was in a good company: Apple, porn, PS3, while HD-DVD was associated with Microsoft. This had tipped the scales, at least for me in favor of Blu-Ray. But lately with Sony's rootkit fiasco, late and overpriced PS3s, the scale is tipping the other way. But their heavy DRM schemes really constrict both standards.
I'll probably only be interested in them once the burners are available at reasonable prices so that I can make nice HD home movies on my Mac. As of now, with the current limitation of DVDs iMovieHD is kinda pointless...
well, yeah, but xbox live is a great success story for them, so they decided to piggyback on it. get ready for MS Office Live, MS Live, Live, Live MS, and finally expect a joint service between Sony and MS called LiiV (the last one's got not much Live in it)
If the battery life is 3.5 hrs on a powerbook, sorry, macbook pro, it should be quite a bit more for the iBook. (if the iBook only has a single core CPU.) I'm a big fan of ibooks, as they make awesome everyday-use machines.
anyone have any numbers on battery life? 3 hours? 5? DVD playing? airport on/off? because, that's, you know kinda important when it comes to laptops...
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I'll give you a hint that has worked for me.
Dont ever tell the girl right away that you're in the computer field or math.
Tell them you're in business, or marketing or something international. Not to impress them, but just to get the conversation flowing. Later on, you can tell them that you're involved with computers.
And don't worry about the details, just ask her to tell you about herself.
---stars and galaxies separated by vast voids.' Thereby creating a 'structure' to the universe -- a kiddush cup. '...finds that the first stars---the forebears of all subsequent generations of stars and of life itself---were fully formed remarkably early, only about 400 million years after inflation. This is called the era of reionization, the point when the light from the first stars ionized hydrogen atoms, liberating electrons from the protons.
Fantastic!
I was looking for a pickup line for tonight!
Well, what if they install Windows on a vacuum cleaner, and use that as an enterprise server?
I guess the Atlantic protects the europe from its American ally, as well as vice-versa.
But, I think this issue is just waiting for MPAA and RIAA to get off their asses and start a process in Sweden.
Good luck to our pirates in Sweden.
Yes, but look at Chile, Iraq, Nicaragua or Tahiti now! (Or even Vietnam?)
I think we did a heckuva job!
Them's fightin' words, bub.
That's wonderful news sir. You've just won yourself an invitation to come to my place of work and train 200 40+ year olds to do the same.
Wow, that'll save us tons of cash!
Why do none of the major gaming sites never mention Daggerfall? (ES2)
Sure it would randomly crash upon walking through doors, but it had boobies!!!
And for that reason, isn't walking into a tavern room to find a nude lady in it the most awesome thing that can happen in a game?
I wonder why no normal games have more casual encounters with nude NPCs?
Exactly. I'm waiting for years for comparisons on Hoover, Orec and Dyson! What gives?!
An aquaintance of mine bought a Media Center PC since it looked really nice in the store, but has not to date been able to set it up as a media center. It is basically a virus hive for his teen daughter.
I know us nerds can figure out how to make a PC like that work, but does anyone have any experience where a typical user successfully installed one of those beasts?
hmm, upon closer inspection, your link appears to be dead.
I get a big fcuk.eu message.
Why would they try to make it compatible with less than 5% of the market?
If both sets of numbers are to be believed, vastly more iPods are connected to windows PCs than Macs.
While it is true that you don't need to buy RAM from Apple, (I don't myself) it is important to get quality RAM from other manufacturers.
The cheapest of the cheap might not be accepted by OS X.
A couple of bad RAM related crashes teach you really quick that saving 25 bucks on RAM isn't worth it...
Well, you're right, I don't have a crystal ball, but since we're just speculating here I thought it'd be OK to assume analysts' predictions.
But even if you disregard the price, since Sony won't be the only manufacturer of Blu-Ray, the format is looking less and less shiny.
From the past experience (betamax, minidisc, memory stick, atrac) maybe consumers should automatically pick their competition as the winning standard...
You're right about the Hollywood movies sucking, but think about going on a vacation and recording beautiful sunsets, scenery and architecture in HD. Then you can stick it in your PC and edit it and have a nice little DVD with slideshow photos all in high-res to remember it by.
I agree with you, I could care less for commercial movies, but it would be nice to make home movies in HD.
For a while, Blu-Ray was in a good company: Apple, porn, PS3, while HD-DVD was associated with Microsoft. This had tipped the scales, at least for me in favor of Blu-Ray. But lately with Sony's rootkit fiasco, late and overpriced PS3s, the scale is tipping the other way.
But their heavy DRM schemes really constrict both standards.
I'll probably only be interested in them once the burners are available at reasonable prices so that I can make nice HD home movies on my Mac. As of now, with the current limitation of DVDs iMovieHD is kinda pointless...
Ha! Ha!
star wars?
yeah, posting that one as AC was a clever decision.
well, yeah, but xbox live is a great success story for them, so they decided to piggyback on it.
get ready for MS Office Live, MS Live, Live, Live MS, and finally expect a joint service between Sony and MS called LiiV
(the last one's got not much Live in it)
Peace out.
If the battery life is 3.5 hrs on a powerbook, sorry, macbook pro, it should be quite a bit more for the iBook. (if the iBook only has a single core CPU.)
I'm a big fan of ibooks, as they make awesome everyday-use machines.
have you tried watching the 1080p trailers off Apple's website?
anyone have any numbers on battery life?
3 hours? 5? DVD playing? airport on/off?
because, that's, you know kinda important when it comes to laptops...
here ogrish.com has a bunch of, well, ogrish clips and pictures.
be prepared to be shocked and depressed though...
LOL, it's almost as if you're making fun of him for pointing out the obvious. LOL