when i brag about how fast and nice my $3000 computer is, it better look damn clean when i go to show it to my friends. all you have to do to put a big scratch in the side is drop a video card on it while you're installing it, and you get to stare at it every time you walk towards the computer.
Aluminum cases? Yeah BABY -- scratch city! Let's hope that these cases are made from 3003 H18 and not 1100 H12, which is one of the softer types of aluminum, while 3003 is a more widely used aluminum alloy.
I might add that you could ask the same question about P4-based PCs. Who needs that kind of firepower? Not many (mainstream) people, really -- aside from perhaps gamers. The vast majority of users just do e-mail, web surfing and word processing, maybe a little photo editing. A P2 or P3 running Linux or an older version of Windows would be more than enough in those cases. Hell, even an old Pentium with a smallish Linux installation would be enough in many cases.
my friend and i have a deal: i own a mac (powerbook g4, 550 mhz) and make him lust after one, while not preaching about it, and he upgrades his computer about once every 6 months, and the old computer becomes his linux server, and his old linux server becomes my windows/photoshop/kazzaa box. except that he hasn't upgraded much lately, and this 400 mhz PII w/256 megs of ram works like a charm.... almost faster than my mac. It sits in a cardboard box on the bottom shelf of a book shelf.
firewall is part of the BSD groundwork(darwin?); which was accessable via the command line or a shareware program called brick wall that manipulated the built in firewall without the user having to deal with the 'ugly' command line. apple's since then, obviously, made the firewall considerably easier to access.
i'd mod you redundant, if i had the points, but i don't, and it's better to just reply. you're not in the market apple is looking for. dell isn't looking for you as a customer, either. dell and apple, and all major computer companies are looking for people who want prebuilt systems, as not everyone has neither the time nor effort nor skill to put together their own computer from scratch, nor upgrade it.
i'm not too well versed in fish biology, but i am pretty sure they don't have any sacks of air in them that is required to survive; all the oxygen they use is absorbed through their gills, unlike a human, which has a large sack in the middle of their chest. as far as I know, that is the only limitation for humans to be able to survive in a near vaccume. i would think the lack of lungs would allow for a greater ability to survive different pressure zones.
The only scenario I know of where a skilled driver may be able to "beat" an ABS is on a stretch of straight, flat pavement in a well designed car (properly balanced front vs. rear breaking).
where most skilled drivers do threshold braking is on the race track, at the end of long straightaways, with properly balanced brakes.
I would assume most law enforcement "laser" units are actually based on LIDAR technology.
Yeah, the only people still using RADAR are the highway patrols out in the boonies, and small town cops. Everyone else has upgraded to LIDAR in the last 7 years or so. Basically, any area that can afford $5000 LIDARs have them now, with 1 or 2 still working RADARs as backups. My friend did a science fair project involving stealth and had to adjust his thesis from RADAR to LIDAR as the police didn't have a RADAR gun to loan out, only a LIDAR (with a sufficently large saftey deposit, that is).
does the fish even have to live in highly pressurized water? given a 24 hour period of slow pressuization, the fish's body would adjust accordingly, one would think.
I assure you, the number of mini-disk players in the backpacks of students in a given highschool varies in direct proportion to where that highschool is.
i'm a year out from high school now, and i can tell you that i knew of two white kids who had MD players, and there were probably 10 asian kids, you know the type that have to have everything, had one too. anyways, my point is that I lived in the second richest suburb in the DFW area, in a school of 2000 people, and less than 1% of the kids owned a MD player of some sort. I don't think it's so much that it's outside the reach of these kids, as much as it is that they're not directly compatible with their PC at home where they can just burn a music CD of the MP3s they've downloaded, or burn an MP3 CD for their MP3 cd player. You can pick up an MP3 CD player (memorex brand, i think) at target for $80, and the media it uses runs about $2.50-$3.50 cheaper per unit compared to MDs.
Hmm, while heavier than air flight might not be directly related to getting to the moon, getting back is where knowledge of flight becomes handy. At least getting back, in one piece, and on the same continent as which you intend on landing.
when talking to a Unix box it doesn't understand the concept of group priviliges most of the time, requiring you to re-save documents 5 to 10 times before it will decide you have write permissions.
aha, is that what the problem is? i thought i was just not doing it right and being inconsistent and that was the source of my problems. good to know it's not on my end.
Thanks for clearing that up, that's some pretty slick technology. Until you brought the 1 GB CF cards, I didn't know they existed, either. I've read that the higher capacity CF cards use more battery juice than the lower capacity cards. I haven't noticed this, but then again I haven't used the 4 MB CF card that came with the camera in about 2 years (as opposed to the newer 32 MB card).
yeah i have about 800 pictures taken in the last 9 months. Are they making 1 GB CF cards, or are the SanDisk cards just IBM microdrives in disguise? if the latter, I would go with the 2 512 over a single 1 GB as true CF cards have no moving parts. Secondly, I don't believe all devices are capable of reading CF cards in excess of 512 MB, although with what he's doing, his camera probably supports 1 GB+ CF cards.
errm... yeah. with a 1 megapixel digital camera, i get roughly 146 pictures/32 meg card, so if you have a 2 megapixel camera (standard these days).... 10 512meg CF cards will get you about 11000 photos, and weigh less than a 1/4 of a lb. Huzzah. Just kinda costly. But that's life.
"GameBoy is for 10-year-olds. If you're 20 or 25 years old, it's probably not a good idea to draw a GameBoy out of your pocket on a Friday night in a public place."
hmm, well a) you'll never get the chicks playing video games while they're around, so this is bad juju for nokia also and b) i'd guess 1 in 5 guys of university age (20-24) own a GBA of some sort... it's not exactly like playing video games is a demasculating activity, seeing as how pretty much all guys play some sort of video game at least once a month in the dorms, ect.
and let's say, 250 million people (although it was smaller in 1955 and larger today, but it very roughly evens out to that) per year in the US were alive. 1.6 billion meals served each year? that would mean the average person in the US eats at mc donalds 6 times a year. hell, i'd even say that's about 50% too low.
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which probably explains why you can run doom on it. do a ctrl+f search to find the several links. very impressive stuff.
why yes, yes it can.
http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/intv/doom/
aren't they made with silver? i recall reading about those way back in the day... or maybe someone had made a game and released it.
when i brag about how fast and nice my $3000 computer is, it better look damn clean when i go to show it to my friends. all you have to do to put a big scratch in the side is drop a video card on it while you're installing it, and you get to stare at it every time you walk towards the computer.
if i had the points, i would mod you up.
Aluminum cases? Yeah BABY -- scratch city! Let's hope that these cases are made from 3003 H18 and not 1100 H12, which is one of the softer types of aluminum, while 3003 is a more widely used aluminum alloy.
my friend and i have a deal: i own a mac (powerbook g4, 550 mhz) and make him lust after one, while not preaching about it, and he upgrades his computer about once every 6 months, and the old computer becomes his linux server, and his old linux server becomes my windows/photoshop/kazzaa box. except that he hasn't upgraded much lately, and this 400 mhz PII w/256 megs of ram works like a charm.... almost faster than my mac. It sits in a cardboard box on the bottom shelf of a book shelf.
firewall is part of the BSD groundwork(darwin?); which was accessable via the command line or a shareware program called brick wall that manipulated the built in firewall without the user having to deal with the 'ugly' command line. apple's since then, obviously, made the firewall considerably easier to access.
i'd mod you redundant, if i had the points, but i don't, and it's better to just reply. you're not in the market apple is looking for. dell isn't looking for you as a customer, either. dell and apple, and all major computer companies are looking for people who want prebuilt systems, as not everyone has neither the time nor effort nor skill to put together their own computer from scratch, nor upgrade it.
i'm not too well versed in fish biology, but i am pretty sure they don't have any sacks of air in them that is required to survive; all the oxygen they use is absorbed through their gills, unlike a human, which has a large sack in the middle of their chest. as far as I know, that is the only limitation for humans to be able to survive in a near vaccume. i would think the lack of lungs would allow for a greater ability to survive different pressure zones.
does the fish even have to live in highly pressurized water? given a 24 hour period of slow pressuization, the fish's body would adjust accordingly, one would think.
i'm a year out from high school now, and i can tell you that i knew of two white kids who had MD players, and there were probably 10 asian kids, you know the type that have to have everything, had one too. anyways, my point is that I lived in the second richest suburb in the DFW area, in a school of 2000 people, and less than 1% of the kids owned a MD player of some sort. I don't think it's so much that it's outside the reach of these kids, as much as it is that they're not directly compatible with their PC at home where they can just burn a music CD of the MP3s they've downloaded, or burn an MP3 CD for their MP3 cd player. You can pick up an MP3 CD player (memorex brand, i think) at target for $80, and the media it uses runs about $2.50-$3.50 cheaper per unit compared to MDs.
Hmm, while heavier than air flight might not be directly related to getting to the moon, getting back is where knowledge of flight becomes handy. At least getting back, in one piece, and on the same continent as which you intend on landing.
...GTA3 hasn't been released in japan as of yet? truly bizzare.
aha, is that what the problem is? i thought i was just not doing it right and being inconsistent and that was the source of my problems. good to know it's not on my end.
180 megs, i think. chicks dig them, they think they're cute, and you get extra style-points for incorperating them as gifts.
Thanks for clearing that up, that's some pretty slick technology. Until you brought the 1 GB CF cards, I didn't know they existed, either. I've read that the higher capacity CF cards use more battery juice than the lower capacity cards. I haven't noticed this, but then again I haven't used the 4 MB CF card that came with the camera in about 2 years (as opposed to the newer 32 MB card).
yeah i have about 800 pictures taken in the last 9 months. Are they making 1 GB CF cards, or are the SanDisk cards just IBM microdrives in disguise? if the latter, I would go with the 2 512 over a single 1 GB as true CF cards have no moving parts. Secondly, I don't believe all devices are capable of reading CF cards in excess of 512 MB, although with what he's doing, his camera probably supports 1 GB+ CF cards.
what the hell are these black spots? black holes? those things are f'n MASSIVE. wow. back to your regularly scheduled slashdot...
errm... yeah. with a 1 megapixel digital camera, i get roughly 146 pictures/32 meg card, so if you have a 2 megapixel camera (standard these days).... 10 512meg CF cards will get you about 11000 photos, and weigh less than a 1/4 of a lb. Huzzah. Just kinda costly. But that's life.
"GameBoy is for 10-year-olds. If you're 20 or 25 years old, it's probably not a good idea to draw a GameBoy out of your pocket on a Friday night in a public place."
hmm, well a) you'll never get the chicks playing video games while they're around, so this is bad juju for nokia also and b) i'd guess 1 in 5 guys of university age (20-24) own a GBA of some sort... it's not exactly like playing video games is a demasculating activity, seeing as how pretty much all guys play some sort of video game at least once a month in the dorms, ect.
do you have anything to back this up? sounds interesting, but what would be an ideal google phrase?
and let's say, 250 million people (although it was smaller in 1955 and larger today, but it very roughly evens out to that) per year in the US were alive. 1.6 billion meals served each year? that would mean the average person in the US eats at mc donalds 6 times a year. hell, i'd even say that's about 50% too low.