I've heard Donald Trump on one of his shows say, that he loves real estate because one can see and touch the buildings, whereas stocks and certificates are just pieces of paper. So yeah, I'd have to agree that most people do prefer the tangibles over the non-tangibles.
you realize of course that instead of having a single layer of 3.1 megapixels, foveon chips have 3 such layers, much like a regular film. sigma, i believe uses those chips, and their pictures are much more vibrant than many 5 MP cameras.
you know what would be funny? if they renamed DNF to Duke Nukem Never as a joke, recognizing that it did take them a bit longer than anticipated to release it.
Man, you are so right on topic. Unmoderated forums are also becoming worthless. IMDB for example seems to be filled for the most part with trolls and kids. Gaming forums are filled with either kids or buffoons. The day we start seeing sigs like: P4 HT 3.4GHz 512 MB 2700 Kingston RAM etc. etc. on slashdot is the day I'm checking out.
I agree with you about this Internet changing into a venue for underground P2P, porn, spyware and other naughty activities. It will become what usenet is today. A dark place where only the brave and the vets dare to venture and collect spoils of the war.
Family internet will be accessed through a secure portal running on a trusted network.
The funny thing is, that would make W correct in saying that terrorists are gathering on internets, because in a few years, there might actually be more than one net. (I2 for example)
yes, i like OSXvnc as well. i ssh into my box, start up the OSXvnc, and am good to go. i do this because i don't like to have a server running all the time, and i haven't figured out how to start the apple remote desktop via ssh. (i haven't tried very hard since ssh+OSXvnc works so well for me...)
So what you're telling me is that CS: Source plays well on high-end cards. Would it have killed them to evaluate it on low-end cards, so that we can know if they'll be able to handle HL2?
I thought XP is the safest and most secure version yet! That's what all the commercials and the blue installation screens say. Does this mean that my potential (and therefore their passion) is full of security holes?
But I saw on the blue installation screens that "XP makes the CD burning easier than ever"!;)
And there was no software installed on the PC (which happened to have deep-freeze, and autologged to a restricted user)
Yes, you're absolutely right, nero could have done it, but the point is that Microsoft advertises products that plainly don't work, but the public doesn't seem to care. (To be fair, my Mac can't burn CDs by itself, but at least iPhoto can burn pics, and iTunes can burn music)
As a techie, I always get bombarded with "Where can I get a good computer?" questions, and I just tell people either at Best Buy for 500 bucks or a Mac.
A few weeks ago someone answered that they don't like Macs because "they like to have control that Windows gives them". So, yesterday that person needs help burning pictures off the digital camera to 3 CDs. It took us fourty (40!) minutes to burn 600 megs of data on a well equipped Windows XP machine (3.06GHz P4 HT, 512 MB RAM). This is why:
I drag the first set of files onto the CD, they burn OK (albeit a bit slow). I drag the second set of files and get an "incorrect function" error. I'm thinking WTF? I use a new CD and some drag-to-disc program comes up and burns the pictures much faster than the first CD did. I try to burn the final CD, but get the incorrect function error again. It took me 20 minutes of CD swapping, ctrl-alt-deleteing, and cussing to figure out that I had to right click on the burner icon and enable CD burning for it. Well, duh, one might say, of course you have to have the CD burning enabled. You might think so, but you'd better not wonder why the first two CDs burned, but the last one required enabling.
What I'm trying to say is that in the time it took me to burn 600 megs of data on a very well stocked Windows XP PC, I could have had the very same pictures sorted into albums, posted on my website (which runs on the same machine), and burned on a cd on a 1.4GHz G4.
Apple way might be more expensive at first, but it doesn't require you to randomly click on things to make them work. (Provided that the PC has a slew of 3rd party applications to keep it working in the first place.)
You don't drag the CD into trash, you drag it on the "eject" button.
You're not closing the program, you're closing it's window. (if you really want to close it, you click on it's name and then click on "quit") (Once you start using an OS which actually does have a working and stable memory management, you find out how nice it is to have a dozen programs running, even though you're not using them all at once.)
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hahaha, i just kill myself.
I tried to run the OP through Babelfish, but it still made no sense...
Wtf is the writer trying to say?
I've heard Donald Trump on one of his shows say, that he loves real estate because one can see and touch the buildings, whereas stocks and certificates are just pieces of paper.
So yeah, I'd have to agree that most people do prefer the tangibles over the non-tangibles.
you realize of course that instead of having a single layer of 3.1 megapixels, foveon chips have 3 such layers, much like a regular film.
sigma, i believe uses those chips, and their pictures are much more vibrant than many 5 MP cameras.
you know what would be funny?
if they renamed DNF to Duke Nukem Never as a joke, recognizing that it did take them a bit longer than anticipated to release it.
Fuck, for the life of me I still can't tell the difference between the two.
Anyone have any mnemonic devices to help me out?
Man, you are so right on topic.
Unmoderated forums are also becoming worthless.
IMDB for example seems to be filled for the most part with trolls and kids.
Gaming forums are filled with either kids or buffoons.
The day we start seeing sigs like:
P4 HT 3.4GHz
512 MB 2700 Kingston RAM
etc. etc.
on slashdot is the day I'm checking out.
I agree with you about this Internet changing into a venue for underground P2P, porn, spyware and other naughty activities.
It will become what usenet is today. A dark place where only the brave and the vets dare to venture and collect spoils of the war.
Family internet will be accessed through a secure portal running on a trusted network.
The funny thing is, that would make W correct in saying that terrorists are gathering on internets, because in a few years, there might actually be more than one net. (I2 for example)
Woe to us all!
yes, i like OSXvnc as well. i ssh into my box, start up the OSXvnc, and am good to go.
i do this because i don't like to have a server running all the time, and i haven't figured out how to start the apple remote desktop via ssh. (i haven't tried very hard since ssh+OSXvnc works so well for me...)
See, nothing is perfect.
Nobody said it would be perfect. Right now this is good enough, and we'll just have to take that.
And besides, it's not like we're voting for the queen.
does anyone know when the steam downloads will be unlocked/available?
the same day?
Damn, that IS way smaller than an iPod.
So what you're telling me is that CS: Source plays well on high-end cards.
Would it have killed them to evaluate it on low-end cards, so that we can know if they'll be able to handle HL2?
I thought XP is the safest and most secure version yet! That's what all the commercials and the blue installation screens say.
Does this mean that my potential (and therefore their passion) is full of security holes?
Here, in Soviet Russia the burner toasts the DVDs!
How are you gentlemen?
holy crap, i guess you CAN learn something new every day!
i wasn't aware that finder can do that, but now i am.
thanx
But I saw on the blue installation screens that "XP makes the CD burning easier than ever"! ;)
And there was no software installed on the PC (which happened to have deep-freeze, and autologged to a restricted user)
Yes, you're absolutely right, nero could have done it, but the point is that Microsoft advertises products that plainly don't work, but the public doesn't seem to care. (To be fair, my Mac can't burn CDs by itself, but at least iPhoto can burn pics, and iTunes can burn music)
As a techie, I always get bombarded with "Where can I get a good computer?" questions, and I just tell people either at Best Buy for 500 bucks or a Mac.
A few weeks ago someone answered that they don't like Macs because "they like to have control that Windows gives them".
So, yesterday that person needs help burning pictures off the digital camera to 3 CDs. It took us fourty (40!) minutes to burn 600 megs of data on a well equipped Windows XP machine (3.06GHz P4 HT, 512 MB RAM). This is why:
I drag the first set of files onto the CD, they burn OK (albeit a bit slow).
I drag the second set of files and get an "incorrect function" error. I'm thinking WTF?
I use a new CD and some drag-to-disc program comes up and burns the pictures much faster than the first CD did.
I try to burn the final CD, but get the incorrect function error again. It took me 20 minutes of CD swapping, ctrl-alt-deleteing, and cussing to figure out that I had to right click on the burner icon and enable CD burning for it.
Well, duh, one might say, of course you have to have the CD burning enabled. You might think so, but you'd better not wonder why the first two CDs burned, but the last one required enabling.
What I'm trying to say is that in the time it took me to burn 600 megs of data on a very well stocked Windows XP PC, I could have had the very same pictures sorted into albums, posted on my website (which runs on the same machine), and burned on a cd on a 1.4GHz G4.
Apple way might be more expensive at first, but it doesn't require you to randomly click on things to make them work. (Provided that the PC has a slew of 3rd party applications to keep it working in the first place.)
You don't drag the CD into trash, you drag it on the "eject" button.
You're not closing the program, you're closing it's window. (if you really want to close it, you click on it's name and then click on "quit") (Once you start using an OS which actually does have a working and stable memory management, you find out how nice it is to have a dozen programs running, even though you're not using them all at once.)
I was under the impression that anything else IS better.
IE 5?
Isn't that like saying "our roads support Yugo or better!"?
Mello Yellow will be offering a school bus ride across the US as its prize.
Is it possible that the camera made it roll?
half a tennis court in size?
wtf?
in my days we used to measure supercomputers in multiples of football fields.
Down with the man, dude!