I'm assuming its not a university or a college. If thats the case you need to be 18 to have a facaebook account acording to their ToS. So, no kids should need to get to facebook.
I just looked at the ToS, you have to be at least 13, which many, if not all, 8th graders would be.
This is per the Registration and Account Security section, line 5.
Fair point, and I certainly would not be opposed to a policy like that. I'd love to be given $1000, as a college student who has almost no money, and not much in the way of job prospects in my area. I'd really probably end up using it to pay for classes/books, though I'd be severely tempted to blow it on a new PC.
I needed a USB SD card reader, and the cheapest BB had one for was $20. I said fuck it, I'll wait two days and get it from Amazon with Prime for a couple dollars. Ended up gettting one that works just great for $5. I didn't have to pay 10% tax on it either.
The VAIO Z has a Thunderbolt type thing, but it uses the USB interface design for the connector. It basically does the external GPU thing, just with a moderately powered mobile GPU.
I got a DV6, and it will hold me over for game until around January/February, while I wait for new CPUs and GPUs in order to build a gaming box. It plays TF2 just fine on my 1440 x 900 monitor, and BC2 as well, on ~medium. It's more than fast enough for anything else I want to do for the most part, even working with video. That 2GHz CPU is almost always at at least 2.4-2.5GHz, even if I run Folding@Home or other heavily threaded stuff on it.
useless and expensive Sony Vaio with built-in Vista
Sony...
From personal experience, that's where the main problem probably was. Vista was pretty bad though, as well. I really like Win7, and I had some not awesome experiences with Mac OSX at my old school with 10.5, the machines were constantly hanging on stuff as simple as running a web browser and MS Word. I am strongly considering an Apple notebook as my next notebook computer, because I would like to have access to all the major OS platforms.
I don't love Apple, but I think they're okay, I don't love MS either. I'm not surprised that AAPL has gotten richer than MS, they make a pretty penny on hardware sales, and iTunes is the biggest music buying platform out there. I personally don't know anyone who doesn't use iTunes at least part of the time when they buy music.
I don't know a lot of people who still use XP at home, and I only know one person who for sure still uses Vista, simply because it's fine for him, and he doesn't care enough to upgrade for the ~$100-150 it would cost him. One of my friends is a diehard XP fan, but he finally switched to 7 when his dad got him a RAM upgrade and new GPU for christmas, and then got the family pack of Home Premium upgrades at Fry's. He wouldn't have bothered if he didn't want to use more RAM or hadn't gotten 7 essentially for free.
I think all the netbooks w/ Linux preinstalled got killed off pretty quickly since people mostly returned them.
The only place I know of that you might be able to get a preinstalled Linux netbook still is someplace like system76 or whatever it's called, that site that sells Ubuntu preinstalled machines
2) Safari is available on both OSX and Windows, though I don't know why anyone on Windows would use it. IE is the only major browser not available on at least two platforms.
Ok, I was thinking on the lines of the socket that isn't on it's death bed, LGA 1155. 1366 is going to die, though your point is accurate.
I actually think they should have gone with the rumors on the hexacores, and had an i9 designation for >4 cores, though I guess that would get to really big numbers quickly if we made every product name only stand for a certain number of cores, since octocore is coming soon.
there are those who claim the quote about some not tasting death was fulfilled with the Tranfiguration, according to my NIV study Bible's notes in the bottom of the pages.
I know this is irrelevant to most consumers, but if I don't know the difference between a couple of Intel CPUs, I just take a quick trip to ark.intel.com and use the compare feature.
Intel should have kept the series named to at least something that would mean something:
Core i3 should be all the dual cores
Core i5 should be only quad cores without HyperThreading
Core i7 should be only quad cores with HyperThreading
Unfortunately Prey has not been of any help in getting my laptop back.:(
It was stolen from my house while my mom was out on her day off running errands and I was at school. My best guess is that the person who stole it just nuked the windows install. I have a suspicion of who may be the perp, but no real evidence, we're waiting on DNA results that should come back 3-12 weeks from being collected.
The machine was stolen almost a month ago, I doubt I will be getting it back, but I guess the good thing is that I will be replacing it with something a bit nicer, and not Sony, like the one that was stolen ~10 months after I bought it.
Ironically, I had been trying to show my friend what Prey did, and was a little curious why it didn't have a report 20 minutes after I marked it as missing to show Prey off, then I got a phone call from my mom that the police were at the house and someone had put a brick through the sliding glass door.
The thing is that under our Constitution, they have every right to speak their mind. Some people would want to just ban the march altogether, but we can't because it would be prior restraint. We can't stop you from speaking your mind, but we can punish you afterwards if what you say/do warrants it. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean that they are not entitled to hold their beliefs and speak freely about them. I personally can't stand it when people like the neoNazi groups feel that they should march and spread their hate, but there's nothing I can do about it, and they have every right to speak and assemble. I would hope that if someone disagreed with my views they would support my right to voice them.
My friend's dad works for MetroPCS, and they built a new tower in our area not that long ago. Before the damn thing ever even go turned on, someone broke in and stole all the copper wiring from it.
most PCs already ship with IGPs, this is the same thing, right?
Joe Consumer doesn't know what the hell a graphics card is, or really any other component for that matter. Integrated Graphics is getting better, but 10 x 0 is still 0. All the new architectures coming out are including Graphics on them, so it's obvious that this would take off, given the huge number of PCs that don't ship with dedicated graphics anyway. The average person will pay more for a "better" CPU, even if they don't know what that means, but to them, the concept of a graphics card is too confusing to understand.
The fact that the new 13" Macbook Pro is integrated only can only help this trend, because I'm sure that model will get the most sales, it's the first choice of every person I know going into college, as well as being more than adequate for most consumers.
I'm required to do something for this contest for my HS Graphic Design class. It is required for getting a good grade. I need the class in order to graduate. I don't really want to do it, but I have to...
Google already provides me email, a phone number, and has access to my videos and some of my pictures, as well as providing the browser I'm writing this in.
If you're out there watching, Google, I for one, welcome our GOOG overlords.
My friend and his brother both have monitoring software on their computers and another program that puts their machines to sleep at around 9PM. The one brother is over 18, the other is around 15-16. It sucks for them. I guess you get used to it when you can't call your dad "dad", but have to refer to him as Dr. (insert last name here) all the time, and he's the principal of you High School. I feel sorry for them. The parents couldn't figure out how to lock anything down to save their lives, but installing some mediocre software that is a slight system hog was not beyond their capability, unfortunately. Pretty sure they leave their WiFi wide open.
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I'm assuming its not a university or a college. If thats the case you need to be 18 to have a facaebook account acording to their ToS. So, no kids should need to get to facebook.
I just looked at the ToS, you have to be at least 13, which many, if not all, 8th graders would be. This is per the Registration and Account Security section, line 5.
Fair point, and I certainly would not be opposed to a policy like that. I'd love to be given $1000, as a college student who has almost no money, and not much in the way of job prospects in my area. I'd really probably end up using it to pay for classes/books, though I'd be severely tempted to blow it on a new PC.
$1002 doesn't go real far. You know what I'd do if they gave me that amount of money? Buy a new computer and play more video games.
I needed a USB SD card reader, and the cheapest BB had one for was $20. I said fuck it, I'll wait two days and get it from Amazon with Prime for a couple dollars. Ended up gettting one that works just great for $5. I didn't have to pay 10% tax on it either.
The VAIO Z has a Thunderbolt type thing, but it uses the USB interface design for the connector. It basically does the external GPU thing, just with a moderately powered mobile GPU.
I got a DV6, and it will hold me over for game until around January/February, while I wait for new CPUs and GPUs in order to build a gaming box. It plays TF2 just fine on my 1440 x 900 monitor, and BC2 as well, on ~medium. It's more than fast enough for anything else I want to do for the most part, even working with video. That 2GHz CPU is almost always at at least 2.4-2.5GHz, even if I run Folding@Home or other heavily threaded stuff on it.
It's been a slow news week, really. That's why this is newsworthy. Plus, who doesn't love a little Minecraft, and therefore, Notch.
that's fuckin' useless. wow...
useless and expensive Sony Vaio with built-in Vista
Sony...
From personal experience, that's where the main problem probably was. Vista was pretty bad though, as well. I really like Win7, and I had some not awesome experiences with Mac OSX at my old school with 10.5, the machines were constantly hanging on stuff as simple as running a web browser and MS Word. I am strongly considering an Apple notebook as my next notebook computer, because I would like to have access to all the major OS platforms.
I don't love Apple, but I think they're okay, I don't love MS either. I'm not surprised that AAPL has gotten richer than MS, they make a pretty penny on hardware sales, and iTunes is the biggest music buying platform out there. I personally don't know anyone who doesn't use iTunes at least part of the time when they buy music.
I don't know a lot of people who still use XP at home, and I only know one person who for sure still uses Vista, simply because it's fine for him, and he doesn't care enough to upgrade for the ~$100-150 it would cost him. One of my friends is a diehard XP fan, but he finally switched to 7 when his dad got him a RAM upgrade and new GPU for christmas, and then got the family pack of Home Premium upgrades at Fry's. He wouldn't have bothered if he didn't want to use more RAM or hadn't gotten 7 essentially for free.
I think all the netbooks w/ Linux preinstalled got killed off pretty quickly since people mostly returned them.
The only place I know of that you might be able to get a preinstalled Linux netbook still is someplace like system76 or whatever it's called, that site that sells Ubuntu preinstalled machines
1) I think you meant "IE and Safari, not so much"
2) Safari is available on both OSX and Windows, though I don't know why anyone on Windows would use it. IE is the only major browser not available on at least two platforms.
Ok, I was thinking on the lines of the socket that isn't on it's death bed, LGA 1155. 1366 is going to die, though your point is accurate. I actually think they should have gone with the rumors on the hexacores, and had an i9 designation for >4 cores, though I guess that would get to really big numbers quickly if we made every product name only stand for a certain number of cores, since octocore is coming soon.
there are those who claim the quote about some not tasting death was fulfilled with the Tranfiguration, according to my NIV study Bible's notes in the bottom of the pages.
maybe MY stolen VAIO was used in the attack.
It was stolen randomly less than a week before PSN went down, coincidence, I think not.
/puts on tin foil hat
my personal philosophy is "Always be IPS-ing" I will never use a TN panel in anything other than a laptop ever again when I have the choice.
I know this is irrelevant to most consumers, but if I don't know the difference between a couple of Intel CPUs, I just take a quick trip to ark.intel.com and use the compare feature.
Intel should have kept the series named to at least something that would mean something:
Core i3 should be all the dual cores
Core i5 should be only quad cores without HyperThreading
Core i7 should be only quad cores with HyperThreading
Unfortunately Prey has not been of any help in getting my laptop back. :(
It was stolen from my house while my mom was out on her day off running errands and I was at school. My best guess is that the person who stole it just nuked the windows install. I have a suspicion of who may be the perp, but no real evidence, we're waiting on DNA results that should come back 3-12 weeks from being collected.
The machine was stolen almost a month ago, I doubt I will be getting it back, but I guess the good thing is that I will be replacing it with something a bit nicer, and not Sony, like the one that was stolen ~10 months after I bought it.
Ironically, I had been trying to show my friend what Prey did, and was a little curious why it didn't have a report 20 minutes after I marked it as missing to show Prey off, then I got a phone call from my mom that the police were at the house and someone had put a brick through the sliding glass door.
The thing is that under our Constitution, they have every right to speak their mind. Some people would want to just ban the march altogether, but we can't because it would be prior restraint. We can't stop you from speaking your mind, but we can punish you afterwards if what you say/do warrants it. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean that they are not entitled to hold their beliefs and speak freely about them. I personally can't stand it when people like the neoNazi groups feel that they should march and spread their hate, but there's nothing I can do about it, and they have every right to speak and assemble. I would hope that if someone disagreed with my views they would support my right to voice them.
so this is why tested.com is down...
My friend's dad works for MetroPCS, and they built a new tower in our area not that long ago. Before the damn thing ever even go turned on, someone broke in and stole all the copper wiring from it.
most PCs already ship with IGPs, this is the same thing, right? Joe Consumer doesn't know what the hell a graphics card is, or really any other component for that matter. Integrated Graphics is getting better, but 10 x 0 is still 0. All the new architectures coming out are including Graphics on them, so it's obvious that this would take off, given the huge number of PCs that don't ship with dedicated graphics anyway. The average person will pay more for a "better" CPU, even if they don't know what that means, but to them, the concept of a graphics card is too confusing to understand. The fact that the new 13" Macbook Pro is integrated only can only help this trend, because I'm sure that model will get the most sales, it's the first choice of every person I know going into college, as well as being more than adequate for most consumers.
I'm required to do something for this contest for my HS Graphic Design class. It is required for getting a good grade. I need the class in order to graduate. I don't really want to do it, but I have to... Google already provides me email, a phone number, and has access to my videos and some of my pictures, as well as providing the browser I'm writing this in. If you're out there watching, Google, I for one, welcome our GOOG overlords.
My friend and his brother both have monitoring software on their computers and another program that puts their machines to sleep at around 9PM. The one brother is over 18, the other is around 15-16. It sucks for them. I guess you get used to it when you can't call your dad "dad", but have to refer to him as Dr. (insert last name here) all the time, and he's the principal of you High School. I feel sorry for them. The parents couldn't figure out how to lock anything down to save their lives, but installing some mediocre software that is a slight system hog was not beyond their capability, unfortunately. Pretty sure they leave their WiFi wide open.
I know many teens who have a separate profile from the one their parents have access to. I wouldn't need it, but apparently some people do.
Use ARMA? that seems like it could just about fit your idea from what I understand (I don't own the game personally)