Darn! I guess I should start working on pulling the race card more, that way I'll fit the stereotype! Here I thought I was supposed to work hard and let my results get me places. Why did I ever listen to my elders. Also, more seriously, I know what you mean about the claims of hate speech etc, I live in Oakland, and it's pretty bad here, to the point where I can barely complain about anything without a quick retort of "What, is it because I'm black?". (No, it's because you're an idiot, and I am just following company policy/guidelines)
My Uncle bought me one of these in 200X (can't remember the year, but it was a little while ago) and it's great! I put it through a lot of stress, and I've had to replace the band twice, but other than that, it's been a wonderful watch.
Depends on the games being played. I'll bring my tower if the game(s) require an extra bit of oomph, or if I don't feel like burning a hole in my friends' table. If we're playing retro night, or a combo of PC/Console games (let the laptop rest) I"ll be fine playing Diablo 2 or Civ (whichever version we're playing) on my laptop. Of course, I don't use a gaming laptop anymore since my Dell XPS 1715, so perhaps I'm missing out on all the new features of a gaming laptop.
You gotta go for the good ol' sturdy CRT monitors on your laptop! When I was in HS, a buddy of mine brought his CRT monitor because he had a screen issue on his laptop. Looked really stupid, but hey, unlike his laptop monitor, the old (I think Dell?) clunker worked just fine! Plus, it could be used as a weapon in case anyone tried to rob him I suppose.
Stop making it sound as if it was a flaw. that was a FEATURE DAMMIT!
Apple owners only wish they had that feature in their phones.
It's coming in the next iOS update! Just place phone in nearby toaster to allow for "Catching Fire" (Hunger Games tie in?) update to download. Make sure you press down on the lever, and remember to turn bagel mode OFF or it'll just burn one side of the phone.
We still have to pay a good amount of cash to go to Universities here. Born in California, went to a UC. There is financial aid/student loans, but those are all ways to pay for tuition, it isn't free. It may have been in the past, I know my parents didn't pay much when they went to college, but unfortunately, they'll still have to pay for something. It's just up to them to see if they can get a part time job/apply successfully for the aid to pay for it.
As someone who lives in Oakland (The site of their new HQ), maybe their cars are just learning from the Oakland drivers... Can't go anywhere in Oakland without someone running a red light, or stopping randomly in the middle of the road, or cutting 3 lanes over to chat with some person walking on the other side of the street-it's crazy.
I'm in that sucky "I want MLB games" group. Waiting/trying to see if there's a way to get my team on the streaming services, but with Comcast owning the rights to the sports network, I wonder how expensive it'll be.
I salute you for having to balls to do it! As stupid as it sounds, I keep delaying doing something like this because "I can't justify spending that all now", even though I'll end up spending that and more on my Comcast service. My wife and I just have an issue dropping $X at once, even if we'll be spending $2X over time. It's stupid, but I'm glad there is a reasonable setup out there.
I'm getting ready for a cable cutting though, by checking antenna placement around the house so we can maximize our TV channels. (I live in Oakland, CA, so it's pretty cool when I can get Bay Area Channels, as well as one or two from Sacramento)
My biggest thing is finding someone with reasonable high speed internet and with a reasonable data cap (or none at all) Once I can get that, I may finally just go for it.
We'll see how it goes! I just had to downgrade from a GTX 970 to a pair of old Sapphire 6950's Crossfired. First AMD/ATI card since my old 9800 I had to buy to run Neverwinter Nights. At least they're old and I wont have to worry about new drivers every day?
Wish me luck!
(I haven't really had issues with AMD or Nvidia though, so perhaps I'm lucky, or AMD sees that I'm running an AMD CPU in this machine, and decides to play nice)
Thanks for the update.
I have noticed that Otter is slow in progress, but I have my fingers crossed!
I'll take a look at Seamonkey and see how I like it. It may enter my rotation.
And yea, I really don't do much on Opera, mostly just for accessing my junk email/when I click on that Red "O" out of habit.
I think by "a tremendous run of groundbreaking products" they mean starting in 2001 to now.
It's up to anyone else to determine how groundbreaking they think the products from the last 15 years are, but at least they've done more in that stretch than just 2016.
Yea, I still have an old copy of their "latest" Presto build on my PC for old times sake, but that change to "Chrome dressed in Red" kinda killed it. I still enjoy it's mouse gestures, but nothing that Otter Browser can't do. I'm still in the market to find something else, currently using Otter, Sleipnir, Opera, and Edge when necessary. I wish they could've a) kept presto, and b) not been bought by the Chinese.
As as student at UCD (Go Ags!) during that incident, I was more annoyed that the protesters around the time kept blocking roads/freeways and keeping us Physics/Engineering students from getting to class! I understand their right to protest, but knowing that a chunk of them spent their settlement money on pot farms in Northern Northern California (Redding area) kinda pissed me off after the fact. I would've spent it on the darn expensive tuition. Also, it should be known that the officers involved had very poor communication with their leadership, and that probably helped lead to the less than stellar handling of the situation.
Of course, this is all a single opinion, and this will be disputed, but that was my take.
As some have said, it is kind of funny that they spend so much money to hide it and it pops up again BECAUSE they spent to much. Serves them right in that sense.
Done rambling. Thanks for your time.
I do not claim to know much about how computers work, but for some games, like Neverwinter Nights (Those that can connect via direct IP address), couldn't someone make a master server list simmilar to what happened with Freelancer? It was some download you ran that kind of faked a master server, and it allowed users to see all the servers who had given their IP addresses to whoever created said download. I was able to go from "I can't see any servers and can't play boo hoo" to "Hey, look, Star Wars RP server!" Once again, I don't claim to know how multiplayer works, or whatever, but hopefully someone with more knowledge than myself could make these little workarounds and keep these old legacy games around. I love NWN, and Freelancer, and many other Gamespy games. (I know, Freelancer was all Microsoft stuff, I'm pretty sure it wasn't gamespy). I hope we can keep playing these games even with everything that happens with Gamespy.
If not, they could always toss him out on the raft thingie. I think mythbusters tested it out and it may be plausible to survive...if someone picked him up once he hit the ocean.
Perhaps they were trying to regulate the porn industry so they had to archive the "data" for further "research"?
Or they were just screwing around at work... but who knows what secrets the government has... maybe they have tons of random departments...
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I believe it's to hire the more expensive foreign workers, so they won't be able to low ball US worker salaries. I could be wrong though.
They have courage, remember? They used it to remove the headphone jack. Or maybe they used it up.
I'm less for the Anime pillows, but the Pocky sounds delicious. I've been snacking on my Botan Rice Candy recently while waiting for baseball season.
Darn! I guess I should start working on pulling the race card more, that way I'll fit the stereotype! Here I thought I was supposed to work hard and let my results get me places. Why did I ever listen to my elders. Also, more seriously, I know what you mean about the claims of hate speech etc, I live in Oakland, and it's pretty bad here, to the point where I can barely complain about anything without a quick retort of "What, is it because I'm black?". (No, it's because you're an idiot, and I am just following company policy/guidelines)
I'm half white, and half Japanese. Does that mean I'll get the job AND get paid more? If so, sign me up! I even live in the East Bay, so I'm local!
My Uncle bought me one of these in 200X (can't remember the year, but it was a little while ago) and it's great! I put it through a lot of stress, and I've had to replace the band twice, but other than that, it's been a wonderful watch.
That's why my FX 8350 stays at home in it's "Safe space". Those mean intel CPUs are always out picking fights.
Depends on the games being played. I'll bring my tower if the game(s) require an extra bit of oomph, or if I don't feel like burning a hole in my friends' table. If we're playing retro night, or a combo of PC/Console games (let the laptop rest) I"ll be fine playing Diablo 2 or Civ (whichever version we're playing) on my laptop. Of course, I don't use a gaming laptop anymore since my Dell XPS 1715, so perhaps I'm missing out on all the new features of a gaming laptop.
You gotta go for the good ol' sturdy CRT monitors on your laptop! When I was in HS, a buddy of mine brought his CRT monitor because he had a screen issue on his laptop. Looked really stupid, but hey, unlike his laptop monitor, the old (I think Dell?) clunker worked just fine! Plus, it could be used as a weapon in case anyone tried to rob him I suppose.
Stop making it sound as if it was a flaw. that was a FEATURE DAMMIT!
Apple owners only wish they had that feature in their phones.
It's coming in the next iOS update! Just place phone in nearby toaster to allow for "Catching Fire" (Hunger Games tie in?) update to download. Make sure you press down on the lever, and remember to turn bagel mode OFF or it'll just burn one side of the phone.
We still have to pay a good amount of cash to go to Universities here. Born in California, went to a UC. There is financial aid/student loans, but those are all ways to pay for tuition, it isn't free. It may have been in the past, I know my parents didn't pay much when they went to college, but unfortunately, they'll still have to pay for something. It's just up to them to see if they can get a part time job/apply successfully for the aid to pay for it.
As someone who lives in Oakland (The site of their new HQ), maybe their cars are just learning from the Oakland drivers... Can't go anywhere in Oakland without someone running a red light, or stopping randomly in the middle of the road, or cutting 3 lanes over to chat with some person walking on the other side of the street-it's crazy.
I'm in that sucky "I want MLB games" group. Waiting/trying to see if there's a way to get my team on the streaming services, but with Comcast owning the rights to the sports network, I wonder how expensive it'll be.
I salute you for having to balls to do it! As stupid as it sounds, I keep delaying doing something like this because "I can't justify spending that all now", even though I'll end up spending that and more on my Comcast service. My wife and I just have an issue dropping $X at once, even if we'll be spending $2X over time. It's stupid, but I'm glad there is a reasonable setup out there. I'm getting ready for a cable cutting though, by checking antenna placement around the house so we can maximize our TV channels. (I live in Oakland, CA, so it's pretty cool when I can get Bay Area Channels, as well as one or two from Sacramento) My biggest thing is finding someone with reasonable high speed internet and with a reasonable data cap (or none at all) Once I can get that, I may finally just go for it.
We'll see how it goes! I just had to downgrade from a GTX 970 to a pair of old Sapphire 6950's Crossfired. First AMD/ATI card since my old 9800 I had to buy to run Neverwinter Nights. At least they're old and I wont have to worry about new drivers every day? Wish me luck! (I haven't really had issues with AMD or Nvidia though, so perhaps I'm lucky, or AMD sees that I'm running an AMD CPU in this machine, and decides to play nice)
Thanks for the update. I have noticed that Otter is slow in progress, but I have my fingers crossed! I'll take a look at Seamonkey and see how I like it. It may enter my rotation. And yea, I really don't do much on Opera, mostly just for accessing my junk email/when I click on that Red "O" out of habit.
I think by "a tremendous run of groundbreaking products" they mean starting in 2001 to now. It's up to anyone else to determine how groundbreaking they think the products from the last 15 years are, but at least they've done more in that stretch than just 2016.
Yea, I still have an old copy of their "latest" Presto build on my PC for old times sake, but that change to "Chrome dressed in Red" kinda killed it. I still enjoy it's mouse gestures, but nothing that Otter Browser can't do. I'm still in the market to find something else, currently using Otter, Sleipnir, Opera, and Edge when necessary. I wish they could've a) kept presto, and b) not been bought by the Chinese.
As as student at UCD (Go Ags!) during that incident, I was more annoyed that the protesters around the time kept blocking roads/freeways and keeping us Physics/Engineering students from getting to class! I understand their right to protest, but knowing that a chunk of them spent their settlement money on pot farms in Northern Northern California (Redding area) kinda pissed me off after the fact. I would've spent it on the darn expensive tuition. Also, it should be known that the officers involved had very poor communication with their leadership, and that probably helped lead to the less than stellar handling of the situation. Of course, this is all a single opinion, and this will be disputed, but that was my take. As some have said, it is kind of funny that they spend so much money to hide it and it pops up again BECAUSE they spent to much. Serves them right in that sense. Done rambling. Thanks for your time.
I do not claim to know much about how computers work, but for some games, like Neverwinter Nights (Those that can connect via direct IP address), couldn't someone make a master server list simmilar to what happened with Freelancer? It was some download you ran that kind of faked a master server, and it allowed users to see all the servers who had given their IP addresses to whoever created said download. I was able to go from "I can't see any servers and can't play boo hoo" to "Hey, look, Star Wars RP server!" Once again, I don't claim to know how multiplayer works, or whatever, but hopefully someone with more knowledge than myself could make these little workarounds and keep these old legacy games around. I love NWN, and Freelancer, and many other Gamespy games. (I know, Freelancer was all Microsoft stuff, I'm pretty sure it wasn't gamespy). I hope we can keep playing these games even with everything that happens with Gamespy.
If not, they could always toss him out on the raft thingie. I think mythbusters tested it out and it may be plausible to survive...if someone picked him up once he hit the ocean.
Perhaps they were trying to regulate the porn industry so they had to archive the "data" for further "research"? Or they were just screwing around at work... but who knows what secrets the government has... maybe they have tons of random departments...