The OP is still probably right about the IO/brightness/wireless.
Battery life estimates are like mileage ratings for cars. You inevitably have to subtract some amount for bullshit factor because they test under the most optimal conditions.
Re:Is word processing not using a computer?
on
24 Hour Laptops From HP?
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
It's not just about "graphic intensive games".
You use wireless, you code - do you compile? Do you listen to music?
These are just a few things that will make that 24h number shrink that were alluded to in the summary. No game playing required.
There are no shortage of good ideas in this world. The same goes for good video game ideas. It's all about who has the means and the skill to execute on an idea.
Also, NDA's don't mean shit when it comes to protecting yourself. You take a calculated risk every time you show someone your idea no matter what you make them sign before hand. The best thing you can do to protect yourself is to have enough development work in that they would be better off buying you out than stealing. Make it worth their while to go the legit route.
If you consider the incident with ``let the sinless throw the first stone'', you are advocating a society in which guilt is determined only by those who are not, themselves, guilty. That is ludicrous, particularly if Adam's original sin is taken into account.
You missed the point completely. Do you think you think the saying "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones" is a call to arms for brick house owners? Please.
Second, Jesus is advocating a quasi-communistic, merchant-less society. This is prevalent throughout all of his writings. ``Go sell all you have'', the incident in the Temple, etc. etc. Again, this is naive and ridiculous.
What is naive and ridiculous is your grasp of Christianity. You should have paid more attention in Sunday School. The "incident in the temple" had to do with the merchants defiling a holy place. If someone tried to set up a hotdog stand directly on top of your family grave site would you be ok with that? If you asked them politely (yeah right) to relocate would that make you a communist?
I'm not even going to bother with your other points because they are laughably weak. If this is the type of attack that Christians can expect from atheists nowadays then they have nothing to worry about.
Ahh so he was "that guy" at university. Campus-wide reputation for being rebel looking for a cause, always hatching up various plots to occupy the president's office, chaining himself to various things on campus, fighting "the man" wherever possible.
Often times "that guy" has a parent who is tenured faculty who keeps pulling his ass out of fire when he gets arrested by campus police for the 10th time. Invariably goes through multiple uni's without finishing his degree which is quite a feat considering it's really not hard to graduate with at least *some* kind of degree even for those who do not enjoy carrying the academic yoke (speaking from personal experience here).
"the real you" is not some fixed quantity. We are organic beings not computers.
Step away from the 1st year psych textbook before you injure yourself.
And for the record, in the future try to avoid telling people "your understanding of who and what you are is wrong". Unless you are the supreme creator you have no right to say that.
"blot out the self" what in gods name are you talking about? Where do you think the goofy ass behaviour comes from after you smoke a doob? That IS you, minus various behavioural regulation mechanisms that would normally prevent you from acting so silly.
It's the part of your "self" that is normally not allowed to see the light of day.
Your post reads like some sort of "reefer madness" type propeganda: "watch out for drugs kids, they will take control of you and blot out the self!".
And for the record the sports analogy is particularly bad. Sports are presumably built around the concept of a level playing field and that is one of the reasons why performance enhancing drugs are an issue. Real life does not recognize the concept of a level playing field. It's dog eat dog and the bigger/faster/smarter/richer dog wins.
I'm the same as you. I either flat out remember the url or google for it. I just glanced at my bookmarks now and it's full of junk I put in there "just in case" but never actually used again.
Mind you I usually have 20 - 40 tabs open in firefox all the time and I just resume my session on startup. It's just a different way of browsing and one that I prefer.
Don't hate on the SB16. Regardless of whether or not it was true 16-bit it was the de facto standard for PC gaming for many years. In fact I remember wanting one quite badly when they first hit the market and I was stuck with my PoS Adlib card.
Let me clarify a little. I have encryption enabled and I do get high speed downloads, it's my upstream that is throttled to hell and back. Upstream usually floats around 1 - 4 k/s. Once in a while I will temporarily get a fast upstream connection to some other client and I assume what is happening here is I am connected to another Rogers user so it is exempt from the throttling rules. If I force all my traffic through a ssh tunnel then suddenly my upstream shoots up near where it should be (80+ k/s).
My guess is that under normal circumstances Rogers is able to identify the traffic patterns of p2p (tons of connections to many different clients) without needing to look inside the individual packets. They then go ahead and close off most of the connections which results in the throttling. If I force it all through my ssh tunnel, it's all going to 1 host so it no longer looks like p2p traffic, just some unidentifiable high speed encrypted stream and therefore it's not subject to throttling.
Thanks for the tip. My memory is a little fuzzy but I think I did initially check them out and they only offered basic 1mb DSL to my location so I went with Rogers even though I hate Rogers. I will definitely have another look at them though.
They don't need to inspect the packets to identify them as p2p. Encryption doesn't do a damn thing for me (Rogers) unless I tunnel it all through a VPN.
I have a 500 which was the successor to the 300 and has a whopping 64 megs of memory. I have fond memories of my rio. Good looking, nice form factor, 1xAA battery = win.
30 fps is at best the bare minimum in terms of playability in a fast moving game such as an FPS. I normally cap out at 60 fps (LCD) but when I am recording game footage with Fraps I set it to 30fps to keep the disk-space consumption reasonable. Suffice to say I find it extremely painful to play at 30 fps and I have trouble making precise shots I would normally make with ease at a higher framerate. For those who haven't used Fraps before the default setting is to display the current framerate in the top corner of the screen so you always know what it is.
Whoever made the claim that ~30 fps is all the human eye can perceive obviously wasn't a gamer.
Note that while BF:Heroes will be ad *supplemented* it will not be purely ad driven. They are also going with a microtransaction system where individuals can purchase perks or upgrades for their characters. They claim these will not be "competition breaking" but will be things like convenience perks (read: power levelling for your char) as well as vanity type upgrades for your chars.
Check out these vid interviews for some more info: (site is not english but the vids are)
Slashdot Mirror
Ahh yes, the infamous PC LOAD LETTER firewall! Impervious to all but the most clever hackers.
The OP is still probably right about the IO/brightness/wireless.
Battery life estimates are like mileage ratings for cars. You inevitably have to subtract some amount for bullshit factor because they test under the most optimal conditions.
It's not just about "graphic intensive games".
You use wireless, you code - do you compile? Do you listen to music?
These are just a few things that will make that 24h number shrink that were alluded to in the summary. No game playing required.
Have we really entered an age where the number of names on a petition are used as some kind of measure?
Half the people I know who sign petitions just sign whatever the hell their friends sign, or sign anything they can to get the person to go away.
Seriously - really?
There are no shortage of good ideas in this world. The same goes for good video game ideas. It's all about who has the means and the skill to execute on an idea.
Also, NDA's don't mean shit when it comes to protecting yourself. You take a calculated risk every time you show someone your idea no matter what you make them sign before hand. The best thing you can do to protect yourself is to have enough development work in that they would be better off buying you out than stealing. Make it worth their while to go the legit route.
What better way to become a better judge of obscenity than to immerse yourself in relevant material. Makes sense to me in an admittedly warped way.
I like the sound of this pancake jacket. Do you have any more info/a url?
If you consider the incident with ``let the sinless throw the first stone'', you are advocating a society in which guilt is determined only by those who are not, themselves, guilty. That is ludicrous, particularly if Adam's original sin is taken into account.
You missed the point completely. Do you think you think the saying "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones" is a call to arms for brick house owners? Please.
Second, Jesus is advocating a quasi-communistic, merchant-less society. This is prevalent throughout all of his writings. ``Go sell all you have'', the incident in the Temple, etc. etc. Again, this is naive and ridiculous.
What is naive and ridiculous is your grasp of Christianity. You should have paid more attention in Sunday School. The "incident in the temple" had to do with the merchants defiling a holy place. If someone tried to set up a hotdog stand directly on top of your family grave site would you be ok with that? If you asked them politely (yeah right) to relocate would that make you a communist?
I'm not even going to bother with your other points because they are laughably weak. If this is the type of attack that Christians can expect from atheists nowadays then they have nothing to worry about.
Ahh so he was "that guy" at university. Campus-wide reputation for being rebel looking for a cause, always hatching up various plots to occupy the president's office, chaining himself to various things on campus, fighting "the man" wherever possible.
Often times "that guy" has a parent who is tenured faculty who keeps pulling his ass out of fire when he gets arrested by campus police for the 10th time. Invariably goes through multiple uni's without finishing his degree which is quite a feat considering it's really not hard to graduate with at least *some* kind of degree even for those who do not enjoy carrying the academic yoke (speaking from personal experience here).
Absolutely ridiculous.
"the real you" is not some fixed quantity. We are organic beings not computers.
Step away from the 1st year psych textbook before you injure yourself.
And for the record, in the future try to avoid telling people "your understanding of who and what you are is wrong". Unless you are the supreme creator you have no right to say that.
"blot out the self" what in gods name are you talking about? Where do you think the goofy ass behaviour comes from after you smoke a doob? That IS you, minus various behavioural regulation mechanisms that would normally prevent you from acting so silly.
It's the part of your "self" that is normally not allowed to see the light of day.
Your post reads like some sort of "reefer madness" type propeganda: "watch out for drugs kids, they will take control of you and blot out the self!".
And for the record the sports analogy is particularly bad. Sports are presumably built around the concept of a level playing field and that is one of the reasons why performance enhancing drugs are an issue. Real life does not recognize the concept of a level playing field. It's dog eat dog and the bigger/faster/smarter/richer dog wins.
I'm the same as you. I either flat out remember the url or google for it. I just glanced at my bookmarks now and it's full of junk I put in there "just in case" but never actually used again.
Mind you I usually have 20 - 40 tabs open in firefox all the time and I just resume my session on startup. It's just a different way of browsing and one that I prefer.
Hey good for you, some of us work in industries where adobe products are the standard and running anything else will result in lost business.
Oh I see, a post = an article?
Nice try.
Don't hate on the SB16. Regardless of whether or not it was true 16-bit it was the de facto standard for PC gaming for many years. In fact I remember wanting one quite badly when they first hit the market and I was stuck with my PoS Adlib card.
I must have missed all those pro microsoft articles here...
And the response to this is always the same
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=493168&cid=22798460
Let me clarify a little. I have encryption enabled and I do get high speed downloads, it's my upstream that is throttled to hell and back. Upstream usually floats around 1 - 4 k/s. Once in a while I will temporarily get a fast upstream connection to some other client and I assume what is happening here is I am connected to another Rogers user so it is exempt from the throttling rules. If I force all my traffic through a ssh tunnel then suddenly my upstream shoots up near where it should be (80+ k/s).
My guess is that under normal circumstances Rogers is able to identify the traffic patterns of p2p (tons of connections to many different clients) without needing to look inside the individual packets. They then go ahead and close off most of the connections which results in the throttling. If I force it all through my ssh tunnel, it's all going to 1 host so it no longer looks like p2p traffic, just some unidentifiable high speed encrypted stream and therefore it's not subject to throttling.
Thanks for the tip. My memory is a little fuzzy but I think I did initially check them out and they only offered basic 1mb DSL to my location so I went with Rogers even though I hate Rogers. I will definitely have another look at them though.
They don't need to inspect the packets to identify them as p2p. Encryption doesn't do a damn thing for me (Rogers) unless I tunnel it all through a VPN.
I have a 500 which was the successor to the 300 and has a whopping 64 megs of memory. I have fond memories of my rio. Good looking, nice form factor, 1xAA battery = win.
30 fps is at best the bare minimum in terms of playability in a fast moving game such as an FPS. I normally cap out at 60 fps (LCD) but when I am recording game footage with Fraps I set it to 30fps to keep the disk-space consumption reasonable. Suffice to say I find it extremely painful to play at 30 fps and I have trouble making precise shots I would normally make with ease at a higher framerate. For those who haven't used Fraps before the default setting is to display the current framerate in the top corner of the screen so you always know what it is.
Whoever made the claim that ~30 fps is all the human eye can perceive obviously wasn't a gamer.
Plan ahead - always take a slow person with you when you go to the zoo.
They claim the purchasable perks will not be "competition breaking".
Note that while BF:Heroes will be ad *supplemented* it will not be purely ad driven. They are also going with a microtransaction system where individuals can purchase perks or upgrades for their characters. They claim these will not be "competition breaking" but will be things like convenience perks (read: power levelling for your char) as well as vanity type upgrades for your chars.
Check out these vid interviews for some more info: (site is not english but the vids are)
http://www.pcgames.de/aid,629100/Interview/Ego-Shooter/Exklusives_Video-Interview_mit_den_Battlefield_Heroes-Entwicklern/