Right I got that, I'm just wondering why the poster seemed to think it would be such a chore to find a place that would sell you a laptop on the spot. It suddenly occured to me that having never been out of the US for an extended period of time I might not know what the fuck I was talking about by saying "Just go to CompUSA stupid".
Never flown internationally, but here's my question: How would they know?
You show up at the airport after your four days in New York, lugging a laptop and carrying bag. Just like probably 25% of the other passengers flying that day. How do they know you just purchased this laptop last night? Couldn't you just say "Yup, headed home from my business trip" or something? Or do they make you declare everything you have on you before entering the country? Seriously curious here.
Think back to the day you hated your girlfriend the most. The one day that, for whatever reason, you just couldn't hardly stand to be around her, and could barely control your tounge enough to not say something you would regret forever. A day where you seriously wondered whether she was really the one for you, and had doubts about your relationship.
Now think about what that day would have been like if you would have had to spend an extra 8 hours with her.
Doing something like this is certainly possible depending on the couple, but the real question is, why would you risk your relationship in this way? Hiring your brother, sister, parents or 3rd uncle twice removed is easier, because you (presumably) don't have to go home with these people at the end of the day. Even hiring your wife is better, as you're legally obligated to stay with her, and (also presumably) have already decided that your love for her is stronger than any argument.
But hiring your girlfriend is just asking for trouble. Not be be condescending, but your girlfriend can be a secretary anywhere. I understand that essentially telling your girlfriend "No I don't want to hire you" is going to be a delicate situation to say the least, but you need to find a way to nip this in the bud.
How could you not have seen that microbe of dust on the end of your 15th eyelash before? It is not very far from your eyes compared where your eyes have looked lately.
You know as I was waiting for this to download I read your comment, and I was sitting here thinking "Oh come on how bad can it be"? Well, I apologize for thinking that.
Jesus. Seriously, who owns the rights to Asimov's stuff? Surely a child or newphew or somebody can sue to get this title changed or something?
I'm with you. That 3 Laws Safe trailer attached to ROTK had enough cool-factor in it that I had high hopes as well. But this is total and utter crap. I'm sure it'll make $60 million, I'm sure the Burger King Kids Meal Toys will be quite wonderful and entertaining, and I'm sure all the old Will Smith "Wild Wild West" action figures still in storage will melt down quite nicely and save Hasbro nearly $5 million in materials cost. But this movie is pissing on Asimov's grave. I seriously wonder if I even want to see this.
Acutally I play it with software rendering. My ATI drivers have some sort of weird bug that only allows you to attempt to connect to a game once: When it goes into it's "Rendering" mode of graphics, it can't go out of that mode and get back in without exiting out of Half Life and restarting. In other words, if you don't connect to the server on the first try, or if you want to change servers, you have to exit out of Half-Life.
I'm sure this is just a driver quirk or something else rather silly, but seeing that anymore I only play Half Life for TFC once in a blue moon, I really don't feel the need to spend any time with it. Software mode isn't that bad really; sure it's not as pretty, but who cares really.
If you were going to plant a message to catch a whistleblower, I don't think you would do it with stuff like "Microsoft gave us $86 million" and "We can pump some other divisions of Microsoft for even more money".
Are you kidding? Lucas got us for no less than 4 different releases of the original trilogy on VHS. He practically invented this "Release, then release again with minor changes" strategy.
By the time it's all said and done, you're going to have:
Original Trilogy Special Edition
Original Trilogy Special Edition Light and Dark Side Edition Box Sets
Original Trilogy Special Edition Rebel and Imperial Edition Box Sets
Original Trilogy Special Edition Jedi Master Box Set With New 15 Minute "Making of The Battle of Yavin" featurette
Original Trilogy Special Edition Lord Vadar Private Collection Box Set With One of 15 Collectible Trading Cards
Original Trilogy Special Edition Master Yoda Box Set With John Williams Commentary Track
Original Trilogy Special Edition "The Force" Super Complete Box Set with Stone Engraved Luke and Vadar Bookends, Leather-Bound Jedi Initiate Training Manual and Never Before Seen 9 Minute Deleted Footage of Han Offering to Take Luke and Ben to Alderaan For Free and Being Nice to C-3PO in the Hallway On The Way to the Bathroom
And then they'll start releasing the Original Trilogy Original Edition...
The Compaq T-1000 TabletPC has. And I can tell you from experience that WindowsXP on that thing is A DOG.
Pack a lunch if you plan on using this thing for anything more than IE and Freecell.
Well as a couple people pointed out, it's more than likely a resistor in the key (mine's a Nissan rather than a GM, but it's likely the same kind of system), so unless Magneto comes round and establishes a permanent magnetic field, this isn't likely to fail for the same reasons.
On my car, the key has a microchip (or something, maybe just more like a magnetic tag) of some sort built into the key. This chip interacts somehow with something imbedded in the ignition, which allows the car to start. In other words, if you try to start the car with something other than my key, supposedly the car won't start because that chip or whatever is missing.
This may be the idea behind this sort of thing. You can open the door with the key, or something else, and the alarm goes off. If you're the legitimate user, you then start up your car, and this chip or whatever then confirms that yes, you really are the driver, and the alarm shuts up. Otherwise, it's probably a robbery in progress.
Doesn't seem like that big of deal to me. I mean either this helps prevent your car being stolen or, worst case, you have to sit around for a bit embarrassed while AAA comes out to help you.
I know this is just "qualifying", but if this is indeed the definitive list of games that will be used in this thing, these guys are smoking crack. An entire qualifing poll for Age of Empires (all three of them), System Shock (great games, but hardly a class unto itself), and Tony Hawk for God's sake? But no turn-based strategy? Where the hell is Master of Orion and Master of Magic? Three freaking catagories for Adventure titles, but not an RPG outside of Diablo and Final Fantasy? Where the hell are the racing or flight sim games? You're going to tell me you can have a "Greatest Games of All Time" battle without Gran Turismo 3 or Falcon 3?
Well, at least it's nice to know that as punishment for their sins, record industry executives will have to settle for regular leather instead of the Corinthian leather on their next Lexus purchase.
I don't deny that a tablet-style PC would be ideal for taking to class, I'm just saying that the current crop of models don't really fit the bill quite yet.
The handwriting recognition functions on most models works OK, but it's not perfect, and is very prone to errors when you're writing fast. It just can't keep up with most peoples normal writing speed. Added to this fact that most college profs are notorious for testing the endurance of students wrists with the sheer speed at which they throw out information at you. You'll either end up with a garbled mess of notes at the end of class you have to decipher, or you miss half the lecture correcting your mistakes as you go.
And yes, the drawing figures aspect would give it an advantage over a normal laptop, but this is a seperate application on all the tablet PC's I've seen so far. In other words, if you want to suddenly copy down that NaCl diagram the biology prof just put up on the slide, you're going to have to tap somewhere else on the screen to switch to the drawing app, quickly draw your figure, then swap back to your text writing app. Do that about 10 times a lecture while the prof is getting all excited about what he's talking about and is moving to Lecture Warp 5.
Then there's what to do with it after the notetaking is done. The notetaking app can port into Word, and the drawing app can be saved as JPG's or whatever. So you either just have to study your notes on the tablet itself, swapping back and forth between apps, opening and closing various files for different days/weeks notes, or you have to work to combine both sources into one file and print them out.
At this point, you probably ask yourself, "Why the hell didn't I just go buy a $1.99 three subject notebook again?" Again, I'm not saying this technology won't be there someday, I'm just saying that right now, you'd be better off spending your money on a laptop.
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Right I got that, I'm just wondering why the poster seemed to think it would be such a chore to find a place that would sell you a laptop on the spot. It suddenly occured to me that having never been out of the US for an extended period of time I might not know what the fuck I was talking about by saying "Just go to CompUSA stupid".
Never flown internationally, but here's my question: How would they know?
You show up at the airport after your four days in New York, lugging a laptop and carrying bag. Just like probably 25% of the other passengers flying that day. How do they know you just purchased this laptop last night? Couldn't you just say "Yup, headed home from my business trip" or something? Or do they make you declare everything you have on you before entering the country? Seriously curious here.
Maybe Best Buy or Fry's? You know, small little niche shops like that.
Seriously, unless you're hung up on Dell, any computer store will fall over themselves selling you a laptop.
Or am I missing a US/UK difference here? Does the UK just not have these kind of "walk in and buy it" type shops?
Think back to the day you hated your girlfriend the most. The one day that, for whatever reason, you just couldn't hardly stand to be around her, and could barely control your tounge enough to not say something you would regret forever. A day where you seriously wondered whether she was really the one for you, and had doubts about your relationship.
Now think about what that day would have been like if you would have had to spend an extra 8 hours with her.
Doing something like this is certainly possible depending on the couple, but the real question is, why would you risk your relationship in this way? Hiring your brother, sister, parents or 3rd uncle twice removed is easier, because you (presumably) don't have to go home with these people at the end of the day. Even hiring your wife is better, as you're legally obligated to stay with her, and (also presumably) have already decided that your love for her is stronger than any argument.
But hiring your girlfriend is just asking for trouble. Not be be condescending, but your girlfriend can be a secretary anywhere. I understand that essentially telling your girlfriend "No I don't want to hire you" is going to be a delicate situation to say the least, but you need to find a way to nip this in the bud.
How could you not have seen that microbe of dust on the end of your 15th eyelash before? It is not very far from your eyes compared where your eyes have looked lately.
You know as I was waiting for this to download I read your comment, and I was sitting here thinking "Oh come on how bad can it be"? Well, I apologize for thinking that.
Jesus. Seriously, who owns the rights to Asimov's stuff? Surely a child or newphew or somebody can sue to get this title changed or something?
I'm with you. That 3 Laws Safe trailer attached to ROTK had enough cool-factor in it that I had high hopes as well. But this is total and utter crap. I'm sure it'll make $60 million, I'm sure the Burger King Kids Meal Toys will be quite wonderful and entertaining, and I'm sure all the old Will Smith "Wild Wild West" action figures still in storage will melt down quite nicely and save Hasbro nearly $5 million in materials cost. But this movie is pissing on Asimov's grave. I seriously wonder if I even want to see this.
You don't have a girlfriend, do you? Trust me, candle makers are doing just fine.
Acutally I play it with software rendering. My ATI drivers have some sort of weird bug that only allows you to attempt to connect to a game once: When it goes into it's "Rendering" mode of graphics, it can't go out of that mode and get back in without exiting out of Half Life and restarting. In other words, if you don't connect to the server on the first try, or if you want to change servers, you have to exit out of Half-Life.
I'm sure this is just a driver quirk or something else rather silly, but seeing that anymore I only play Half Life for TFC once in a blue moon, I really don't feel the need to spend any time with it. Software mode isn't that bad really; sure it's not as pretty, but who cares really.
One hard-core Cyrix user out there.
Also, some fool is trying to run half life at 96 pixels?
And finally, nice to see all those Microsoft employees beta-testing XP SP2 are hard at work...
If you were going to plant a message to catch a whistleblower, I don't think you would do it with stuff like "Microsoft gave us $86 million" and "We can pump some other divisions of Microsoft for even more money".
This seems like a lot of hype for just that kind of announcement. NASA looking for a PR boost I guess.
A lot of people are saying "salty water", but damn...microbes....it's just too much to hope for.
Are you kidding? Lucas got us for no less than 4 different releases of the original trilogy on VHS. He practically invented this "Release, then release again with minor changes" strategy.
By the time it's all said and done, you're going to have:
Original Trilogy Special Edition
Original Trilogy Special Edition Light and Dark Side Edition Box Sets
Original Trilogy Special Edition Rebel and Imperial Edition Box Sets
Original Trilogy Special Edition Jedi Master Box Set With New 15 Minute "Making of The Battle of Yavin" featurette
Original Trilogy Special Edition Lord Vadar Private Collection Box Set With One of 15 Collectible Trading Cards
Original Trilogy Special Edition Master Yoda Box Set With John Williams Commentary Track
Original Trilogy Special Edition "The Force" Super Complete Box Set with Stone Engraved Luke and Vadar Bookends, Leather-Bound Jedi Initiate Training Manual and Never Before Seen 9 Minute Deleted Footage of Han Offering to Take Luke and Ben to Alderaan For Free and Being Nice to C-3PO in the Hallway On The Way to the Bathroom
And then they'll start releasing the Original Trilogy Original Edition...
In WindowsXP Pro users do not run as root 100% of the time. At least not if you set it up properly, which is true in the *Nix world as well.
XP Home may be another case, but even there the setup recommends setting up "some users" (i.e. the kids) as Standard Users rather than Administrators.
The Compaq T-1000 TabletPC has. And I can tell you from experience that WindowsXP on that thing is A DOG. Pack a lunch if you plan on using this thing for anything more than IE and Freecell.
Well as a couple people pointed out, it's more than likely a resistor in the key (mine's a Nissan rather than a GM, but it's likely the same kind of system), so unless Magneto comes round and establishes a permanent magnetic field, this isn't likely to fail for the same reasons.
It sounds like the Infinite Improbability Drive is malfunctioning again.
On my car, the key has a microchip (or something, maybe just more like a magnetic tag) of some sort built into the key. This chip interacts somehow with something imbedded in the ignition, which allows the car to start. In other words, if you try to start the car with something other than my key, supposedly the car won't start because that chip or whatever is missing.
This may be the idea behind this sort of thing. You can open the door with the key, or something else, and the alarm goes off. If you're the legitimate user, you then start up your car, and this chip or whatever then confirms that yes, you really are the driver, and the alarm shuts up. Otherwise, it's probably a robbery in progress.
Doesn't seem like that big of deal to me. I mean either this helps prevent your car being stolen or, worst case, you have to sit around for a bit embarrassed while AAA comes out to help you.
Stigma with whom, the RIAA? James and Lars? The rest of us were quite fond of Napster.
I know this is just "qualifying", but if this is indeed the definitive list of games that will be used in this thing, these guys are smoking crack. An entire qualifing poll for Age of Empires (all three of them), System Shock (great games, but hardly a class unto itself), and Tony Hawk for God's sake? But no turn-based strategy? Where the hell is Master of Orion and Master of Magic? Three freaking catagories for Adventure titles, but not an RPG outside of Diablo and Final Fantasy? Where the hell are the racing or flight sim games? You're going to tell me you can have a "Greatest Games of All Time" battle without Gran Turismo 3 or Falcon 3?
Well, at least it's nice to know that as punishment for their sins, record industry executives will have to settle for regular leather instead of the Corinthian leather on their next Lexus purchase.
What exactly in the submitter's paragraph would lead you to believe that he lives with his mother, or even spoke to her about the topic at all?
Reading Comprehension: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
I don't deny that a tablet-style PC would be ideal for taking to class, I'm just saying that the current crop of models don't really fit the bill quite yet.
The handwriting recognition functions on most models works OK, but it's not perfect, and is very prone to errors when you're writing fast. It just can't keep up with most peoples normal writing speed. Added to this fact that most college profs are notorious for testing the endurance of students wrists with the sheer speed at which they throw out information at you. You'll either end up with a garbled mess of notes at the end of class you have to decipher, or you miss half the lecture correcting your mistakes as you go.
And yes, the drawing figures aspect would give it an advantage over a normal laptop, but this is a seperate application on all the tablet PC's I've seen so far. In other words, if you want to suddenly copy down that NaCl diagram the biology prof just put up on the slide, you're going to have to tap somewhere else on the screen to switch to the drawing app, quickly draw your figure, then swap back to your text writing app. Do that about 10 times a lecture while the prof is getting all excited about what he's talking about and is moving to Lecture Warp 5.
Then there's what to do with it after the notetaking is done. The notetaking app can port into Word, and the drawing app can be saved as JPG's or whatever. So you either just have to study your notes on the tablet itself, swapping back and forth between apps, opening and closing various files for different days/weeks notes, or you have to work to combine both sources into one file and print them out.
At this point, you probably ask yourself, "Why the hell didn't I just go buy a $1.99 three subject notebook again?" Again, I'm not saying this technology won't be there someday, I'm just saying that right now, you'd be better off spending your money on a laptop.