Eliminate beer Goggles! Picture the scene: you're at a bar, gettin' close to closing time. The chick you've been talking to is lookin' pretty good, but all your friend's have abandoned you.
Whip out the phone, take a pic of the broad. Phone flashes green if she's good, Red if she's not.
Seriously, have any other/.'ers created their own system? Sure, mine sucks as I just used it to learn php, but it's still cool to programmatically create tables from a flat text file somewhere and append a date.
People who are alone and anonymous in an online setting tend to clump up with people with at least one similar attribute, same as in real life. Just listen in when one player in a game is found out to be French, or German, or Canadian. Why shoot an American when you can shoot a Hungarian? If English isn't your first language, you frequently become a target.
In Diablo, there were people who would pk (player kill) only Koreans - they had a different character set for typing so it was instantly known who was Korean. Sometimes it was the opposite and the Koreans would kill the English speakers.
If you knew the stuff they actually do and have done, your head would probably explode. I'm serious, literally explode. Like a small mellon or something in the hands of Gallagher.
Yes, I'm quite positive. The only way to get something done is to have 4000 of your customers call the PUC (hey, it beats them bitching at you! Customers love to hate SBC and techies love to pass the buck). Then maybe they'll "look into it."
Like a large, ripe berry. "Wait, you mean they actually...*kaboom!*"
I'm guessing the reason it looks worse is that your projector can't handle those resolutions, therefore it's the PROJECTOR which is trying to down-scale the image to fit it to SVGA, etc.
I have a XVGA DLP and it looks much better @ 1024x768 than at 800x600 because PowerDVD does a very nice job upscaling the image. If I try to send 1600x1200 to the 1024x768 DLP then it looks like ass, not because of the player, but because of the DLP down-conversion.
ALWAYS watch at the NATIVE resolution of your DLP for the best picture quality. Period.
And they have the optional leather seats? They don't stuck them in the trunk ya know. Or on top of the original seats. I'll leave this puzzle up to you to figure out.
I can see my house, where I used to work, people on the beach, Ocean Avenue in Carmel, Bubba Gumps in Monterey (and all of Cannery Row), Monterey Bay Aquarium, Pebble Beach, etc.
I'm tempted to grab all the hi-res pictures and creating a slide show moving along Del Monte beach all the way to Carmel Beach. You can see the house that Frank Lloyd designed (that Sammy Hagar used to live in) here.
Ok, I'm bookmarking this. You can even see the Monterey Presidio that they shut down slightly before Sep. 11th (security was tightened from an unknown threat?). Interesting, indeed.
My ISP just implemented such a thing, and as an ex-employee I got to beta test. All the beta testers signed up for the new service as soon as the testing period was over, which is $5 more a month than the regular dialup. So it looks like they're doing something right.
With the Xbox and WindowsXP, I was hoping for DirectX X to add to MS's collexion. Uh, oh, it's invaded our lexicon, just in time for X-mas though. Sorry xtina, your outdated, better go back to your OS X. No Xtreme sports for you.
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Eliminate beer Goggles! Picture the scene: you're at a bar, gettin' close to closing time. The chick you've been talking to is lookin' pretty good, but all your friend's have abandoned you.
Whip out the phone, take a pic of the broad. Phone flashes green if she's good, Red if she's not.
That would have saved me uh...i mean...yeah...
And here I am lifting sticks of RAM. Even the 2gb sticks aren't much of a workout. :/
wow, that's very cool. I'm jealous! I have some work to do now!
Phone updates...*shakes head*, why didn't I think of that.
Seriously, have any other /.'ers created their own system? Sure, mine sucks as I just used it to learn php, but it's still cool to programmatically create tables from a flat text file somewhere and append a date.
a little tongue-in-cheek to you? At least it was testefully done. It left a bad taste in my mouth though. The French version has a M rating I hear.
My roommate claims that the full house link has a popup that gave him the startpage virus. Just FYI...
Of course, me using moz, I didn't notice it.
http://fly.to/fullhouse
I didn't buy the 3D0, no sir...don't remember playing evil clown driving games at all.
Nope.
Then I have a 4ghz cpu, 1gb 2ghz DDR ram, 512mb UltraShiny GeForceFX6900++ console called the Enforcer that I'd like to sell you.
Seriously.
We have Max Payne 3.
*smirks*
They forgot blowtorch
Ah, my point exactly.
If I can fit 50 hours more pr0n in that space, it will be worth the effort.
And really, this isn't peanuts we're talking about here. A few gigs here, a few gigs there, and pretty soon you're talking about real bytes.
Hell, just 5 years ago the biggest hard drives were smaller than this "lost space."
People who are alone and anonymous in an online setting tend to clump up with people with at least one similar attribute, same as in real life. Just listen in when one player in a game is found out to be French, or German, or Canadian. Why shoot an American when you can shoot a Hungarian? If English isn't your first language, you frequently become a target.
In Diablo, there were people who would pk (player kill) only Koreans - they had a different character set for typing so it was instantly known who was Korean. Sometimes it was the opposite and the Koreans would kill the English speakers.
Human Nature?
I'm not going to vote for a spammer. Unsolicited is unsolicited.
is a TI-82 with "Drug wars 2: extreme doobie-smack" loaded onto it.
What? It got me through AP calc. The trick is to buy low.
That was a fascinating show, history of death machines.
If you knew the stuff they actually do and have done, your head would probably explode. I'm serious, literally explode. Like a small mellon or something in the hands of Gallagher.
Yes, I'm quite positive. The only way to get something done is to have 4000 of your customers call the PUC (hey, it beats them bitching at you! Customers love to hate SBC and techies love to pass the buck). Then maybe they'll "look into it."
Like a large, ripe berry.
"Wait, you mean they actually...*kaboom!*"
What, you thought there was more?
I'm guessing the reason it looks worse is that your projector can't handle those resolutions, therefore it's the PROJECTOR which is trying to down-scale the image to fit it to SVGA, etc.
I have a XVGA DLP and it looks much better @ 1024x768 than at 800x600 because PowerDVD does a very nice job upscaling the image. If I try to send 1600x1200 to the 1024x768 DLP then it looks like ass, not because of the player, but because of the DLP down-conversion.
ALWAYS watch at the NATIVE resolution of your DLP for the best picture quality. Period.
And they have the optional leather seats? They don't stuck them in the trunk ya know. Or on top of the original seats. I'll leave this puzzle up to you to figure out.
I can see my house, where I used to work, people on the beach, Ocean Avenue in Carmel, Bubba Gumps in Monterey (and all of Cannery Row), Monterey Bay Aquarium, Pebble Beach, etc.
I'm tempted to grab all the hi-res pictures and creating a slide show moving along Del Monte beach all the way to Carmel Beach. You can see the house that Frank Lloyd designed (that Sammy Hagar used to live in) here.
Ok, I'm bookmarking this. You can even see the Monterey Presidio that they shut down slightly before Sep. 11th (security was tightened from an unknown threat?). Interesting, indeed.
My ISP just implemented such a thing, and as an ex-employee I got to beta test. All the beta testers signed up for the new service as soon as the testing period was over, which is $5 more a month than the regular dialup. So it looks like they're doing something right.
I have a M-Audio card that's powering my home theater. I will never use a creative card.
The first hint is when I stopped playing a digital source, yet my receiver still showed a signal present (hiss). Hello Creative?
With the Xbox and WindowsXP, I was hoping for DirectX X to add to MS's collexion. Uh, oh, it's invaded our lexicon, just in time for X-mas though. Sorry xtina, your outdated, better go back to your OS X. No Xtreme sports for you.
I have that damn Britney Spears song running through my head again. I wonder how that hap...
oh.
"...why not try to find a print substitute of Salon's quality that costs money"
I tried, but the bartender kept givin' me funny looks.