i turn off the external monitor + turn brightness all the way off on my laptop's screen when i leave/not using it. Theroretically, it saves the life of the backlight. Two years and counting, and my backlight is ~95% as bright as my 8 year old (1996-ish) sony trinitron monitor with color temp set @ 9300K
I worked at CompUSA back in high school when those first came out. I thought using "laser mice" on my thigh was a big deal - and the demo really helped sell them - but truth be told, I own a logitech trackman wheel and a MS intellieye, and I sent my mother the MS mouse. The trackball just works better under more conditions than the lasermouse. It's personal preference, of course, but they are handy.
First off, I have a powerbook g4, I'm a student, and I'm typing this from my laptop. I've had it for just over two years now.
USB 2, Firewire, it doesn't matter. The case itself runs somthing like $25 for a decent case, and another $60 for a gianormous drive. The drive serves two purposes: 1) you can put all your personal, non work/school related stuff on there (porn, music, warez install backups, digital camera photo collection, etc.) and 2) you can back your shit up from time to time. Your laptop hard drive will never be big enough, and your computer will eventually puke, causing you to reload everything. Being able to boot from an external drive and recovering all your stuff before wiping and reinstalling on the internal drive, without hassle is amazingly easy. Think you have a virus/can't get rid of annoying pop-up/spyware? Re-install. Just pop the install CD in before you go to bed and it's ready to go the next morning.
Compact flash reader. My digital camera uses CF. Bypassing the silly included software is awesome, and it doubles as a USB floppy. I also have a PCMCIA CF reader.
Two pink, rubber erasers. They go on the back corners of my laptop, elevate the keyboard to a more ergonomic tilt, and provide better cooling, while not scratching the case. Also helpful for getting rid of smudges on your pretty, new laptop.
Trackball mouse. It works on the plane, in the back seat of a car, on the beach, wherever. It also doesn't keep my roommate/girlfriend up at night with the light of a regular optical mouse. I personally bought a silver-ish looking logitech optical trackman wheel, which i reccomend.
Wifi card. AIM + TV + Food = awesome.
Things I wish I had:
Two spare power adapters. One for my backpack, and one for the living room.
USB sound card - better quality sound output + more options for input (my laptop didn't come with a line in option)
A spare keyboard (on the off chance i break off one of my keys/this one wears out). They're usually about $100, but well worth the investment.
I'd like a webcam. They're neat, and often more handy than a digicam.
Kensington USB flexlite/flexlight. Just enough light at night. $20.
A 10' extension cord + single outlet travel sized surge protector. That outlet is never close enough to the desk, wherever it is you end up.
Get a crossover cable if your computer doesn't do auto switching like all mac laptops do. It's quite handy.
With 4 hours of (Real time) battery life, I don't need a second battery. I can get from dallas to miami on a plane and get plenty of work done with the b. life I have. One battery is not $129 worth of convenience for a second one. Wait at least three months before even considering buying one. Chances are, you won't need one.
And get a case. A really good one, preferably one made specifically for your laptop. It should have a removable sleeve so you can toss it in a briefcase and go on a day trip, and not drag everything else along. I spent $220 on my brenthaven, and it still looks new. If I had to replace it tomorrow, I'd buy the exact same one, and pay double that for it, if I had to.
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it looks like a two-shot primitive gun. not terribly uncommon. they're usually packed to look like a keychain or wine bottle opener. two AA or AAA battery "slots", especially in a metal casing, make for a decent, close range gun. i'd just buy a mini-maglite and be done with it.
why would a faster train warp the rails? was this around the corner, or did this happen along the straightaways also? how did they know that they were warping the rails? can you provide some sort of links/googleable search phrases? this sounds interesting to read up on. Thanks.
My girlfriend and I have used her 4 megapixel camera + 128 meg flash card + walmart's $0.24/digicam printing service reliably for about a year now. Beats the pants off of buying/developing film. Only about 1 out of 100 pictures ever make it into a frame of any sort anyways, and digital pictures are much easier to organize and archive.
This is the reasoning at Univ. Texas @ Arlington, according to my calc prof:
"The TI-92 is a great calculator, I think everyone should have one, and even better is the TI-89, my cousin picked one up on eBay for $75 a couple months ago.... but you can't use a TI-92 on tests. Why? I get that alot, so I'll awnser the question for you now; it uses a QWERTY keyboard. (goes into a speech about how graphing calcs are computers...)...And if we started letting people use TI-92s in class, eventually someone would come in and use their laptop as a calculator, probably running Matlab or Maple, which wouldn't be fair to anyone else, and would essentially be cheating. Besides, if you're doing any sort of real engineering class, you're going to need a TI-89 anyways, so you might as well save a couple of bucks and get the better calculator that I'll let you use on tests."
In the 1970's there were things called 'Midnight Movies'; showings of unusual films at 12am. They were actually quite popular then, but now it's hard to believe that anyone would want to see a movie at midnight.
wtf? there's at least three theaters in dallas alone that do exactly what you talk about. where did you copy and paste that from (too lazy to google)?
She has a laptop, which is really an imac, just more portable, already. Can't seem to make the distinction between monitor and computer, however. We're already on the apple bandwagon; I own a powerbook.
Hmm, I hadn't thought of that before. She wants to understand, but she still has a high amount of technophobia running through her veins that she has to overcome first. I've always used the cable box -> tv analogy, butshe seems to have trouble with that, also. I'll give the hifi system -> speaker analogy a try. Muchos gracias.
powerbook g4 (titanium, not the new aluminum ones), the hinges (common breakage point) and backlight are all part of the same part number... $1100 new from apple. dim screen? broken hinge? fix it? nah, it's cheaper to buy a new ibook g4.
ipod hard drives overheat in the ipod casing under continious usage. hd is designed to spin up for 2-3 minutes, then "sleep" until the next couple of songs have played. you'd have some cool looking, usless arrays in the very near future
Considering how unbelievably popular initial D was in sales, maybe managment will see fit to send us a copy stateside? Anyone heard any rumors along those lines?
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i turn off the external monitor + turn brightness all the way off on my laptop's screen when i leave/not using it. Theroretically, it saves the life of the backlight. Two years and counting, and my backlight is ~95% as bright as my 8 year old (1996-ish) sony trinitron monitor with color temp set @ 9300K
I worked at CompUSA back in high school when those first came out. I thought using "laser mice" on my thigh was a big deal - and the demo really helped sell them - but truth be told, I own a logitech trackman wheel and a MS intellieye, and I sent my mother the MS mouse. The trackball just works better under more conditions than the lasermouse. It's personal preference, of course, but they are handy.
err, USB 2 or Firewire external hard drive.
First off, I have a powerbook g4, I'm a student, and I'm typing this from my laptop. I've had it for just over two years now.
USB 2, Firewire, it doesn't matter. The case itself runs somthing like $25 for a decent case, and another $60 for a gianormous drive. The drive serves two purposes: 1) you can put all your personal, non work/school related stuff on there (porn, music, warez install backups, digital camera photo collection, etc.) and 2) you can back your shit up from time to time. Your laptop hard drive will never be big enough, and your computer will eventually puke, causing you to reload everything. Being able to boot from an external drive and recovering all your stuff before wiping and reinstalling on the internal drive, without hassle is amazingly easy. Think you have a virus/can't get rid of annoying pop-up/spyware? Re-install. Just pop the install CD in before you go to bed and it's ready to go the next morning.
Compact flash reader. My digital camera uses CF. Bypassing the silly included software is awesome, and it doubles as a USB floppy. I also have a PCMCIA CF reader.
Two pink, rubber erasers. They go on the back corners of my laptop, elevate the keyboard to a more ergonomic tilt, and provide better cooling, while not scratching the case. Also helpful for getting rid of smudges on your pretty, new laptop.
Trackball mouse. It works on the plane, in the back seat of a car, on the beach, wherever. It also doesn't keep my roommate/girlfriend up at night with the light of a regular optical mouse. I personally bought a silver-ish looking logitech optical trackman wheel, which i reccomend.
Wifi card. AIM + TV + Food = awesome.
Things I wish I had:
Two spare power adapters. One for my backpack, and one for the living room.
USB sound card - better quality sound output + more options for input (my laptop didn't come with a line in option)
A spare keyboard (on the off chance i break off one of my keys/this one wears out). They're usually about $100, but well worth the investment.
I'd like a webcam. They're neat, and often more handy than a digicam.
Kensington USB flexlite/flexlight. Just enough light at night. $20.
A 10' extension cord + single outlet travel sized surge protector. That outlet is never close enough to the desk, wherever it is you end up.
Get a crossover cable if your computer doesn't do auto switching like all mac laptops do. It's quite handy.
With 4 hours of (Real time) battery life, I don't need a second battery. I can get from dallas to miami on a plane and get plenty of work done with the b. life I have. One battery is not $129 worth of convenience for a second one. Wait at least three months before even considering buying one. Chances are, you won't need one.
And get a case. A really good one, preferably one made specifically for your laptop. It should have a removable sleeve so you can toss it in a briefcase and go on a day trip, and not drag everything else along. I spent $220 on my brenthaven, and it still looks new. If I had to replace it tomorrow, I'd buy the exact same one, and pay double that for it, if I had to.
it looks like a two-shot primitive gun. not terribly uncommon. they're usually packed to look like a keychain or wine bottle opener. two AA or AAA battery "slots", especially in a metal casing, make for a decent, close range gun. i'd just buy a mini-maglite and be done with it.
Anyone have an official US release date for GT4? Sony Entertainment Europe says mid april, but nothing for the US as of yet.
What about graphite?
Conductivity Watt/cm-K
silver 4.1856
gold 3.1305
platinum 0.7264
titanium 0.1730
in short, no.
why would a faster train warp the rails? was this around the corner, or did this happen along the straightaways also? how did they know that they were warping the rails? can you provide some sort of links/googleable search phrases? this sounds interesting to read up on. Thanks.
it's a term you google for. dumbass.
My girlfriend and I have used her 4 megapixel camera + 128 meg flash card + walmart's $0.24/digicam printing service reliably for about a year now. Beats the pants off of buying/developing film. Only about 1 out of 100 pictures ever make it into a frame of any sort anyways, and digital pictures are much easier to organize and archive.
This is the reasoning at Univ. Texas @ Arlington, according to my calc prof:
...And if we started letting people use TI-92s in class, eventually someone would come in and use their laptop as a calculator, probably running Matlab or Maple, which wouldn't be fair to anyone else, and would essentially be cheating. Besides, if you're doing any sort of real engineering class, you're going to need a TI-89 anyways, so you might as well save a couple of bucks and get the better calculator that I'll let you use on tests."
"The TI-92 is a great calculator, I think everyone should have one, and even better is the TI-89, my cousin picked one up on eBay for $75 a couple months ago.... but you can't use a TI-92 on tests. Why? I get that alot, so I'll awnser the question for you now; it uses a QWERTY keyboard. (goes into a speech about how graphing calcs are computers...)
In the 1970's there were things called 'Midnight Movies'; showings of unusual films at 12am. They were actually quite popular then, but now it's hard to believe that anyone would want to see a movie at midnight.
wtf? there's at least three theaters in dallas alone that do exactly what you talk about. where did you copy and paste that from (too lazy to google)?
maybe they don't make the game for the pc, because lots of the optimizations are written in assembly, and native PS2 code doesn't port well at all.
but give me a damn release date, already! damn NDAs with the car companies and all the important auto shows being in early january....
good lord - will i ever get driver support for the hp 3300c scanner? 3200 and 3500, yes, but never the 3300c. aaaarrrgh.
She has a laptop, which is really an imac, just more portable, already. Can't seem to make the distinction between monitor and computer, however. We're already on the apple bandwagon; I own a powerbook.
Hmm, I hadn't thought of that before. She wants to understand, but she still has a high amount of technophobia running through her veins that she has to overcome first. I've always used the cable box -> tv analogy, butshe seems to have trouble with that, also. I'll give the hifi system -> speaker analogy a try. Muchos gracias.
aha - i was wondering why that happened on long urls, also. much thanks.
The problem is, most people dont yet understand the diffrence between a monitor and a computer
this is very true; I still haven't been able to explain the difference clearly to my mom - any ideas?
hmm try googling xplane. the end.
you'd probably be better off running the fan(s) off of the firewire bus, it's already 12 volts.
powerbook g4 (titanium, not the new aluminum ones), the hinges (common breakage point) and backlight are all part of the same part number... $1100 new from apple. dim screen? broken hinge? fix it? nah, it's cheaper to buy a new ibook g4.
ipod hard drives overheat in the ipod casing under continious usage. hd is designed to spin up for 2-3 minutes, then "sleep" until the next couple of songs have played. you'd have some cool looking, usless arrays in the very near future
Considering how unbelievably popular initial D was in sales, maybe managment will see fit to send us a copy stateside? Anyone heard any rumors along those lines?