So what you're trying to say is that you'd look for mature and functional applications, but this usually has nothing to do with the screenshot... so you're saying you don't know what you're looking for in a screenshot?
Most people's headphones are 10-100x better than their home stereo speakers. This lack of coloration and distortion also enables you to turn the music up louder without feeling the onset of pain.
Listening to music on my crappy yamaha speakers (don't laugh plz) can get painful... but putting on the Sennheisers (HD457's) at work is a totally different experience, and while I can tell the music can be louder with the Senns without distortion, it's easier to push beyond the limits with the cans.
Doesn't the M-Audio card also have ultra-low-latency drivers?
That's probably why it's spiking your CPU - it's guaranteeing itself some regular interval of time with your CPU so it doesn't skip a beat, so to speak.
Would you hire someone who possibly used drugs >1 year ago, recreationally? Would it take 5 years?
The only reason I would ask is that I know of people (potheads) that smoke regularly, and I also know of people that have not touched the stuff in years.
Drug use in the workplace is a no no in my book, however. That'd be just as bad as sleeping while on the job....
The "power" button on the front of the PS2 is 2 things:
1. If the unit is in "standby", pressing the button brings out of standby and boots. 2. If the unit is "in use" and the button is tapped, it acts as a full-reset button for the system. This causes the system to reboot, and hence drags the tray in so that it can boot whatever is in the tray. 3. If the unit is "in use" and the button is pressed >2 secs(?), it places the unit in standby, after ensuring the drive tray is "put away". This way it doesn't stick out for others to mess with.... In addition, the LED on the front of said button changes to RED to indicate standby.
You can also wake the unit by hitting the drive-eject button. Will cause the machine to boot, but not suck the drive tray in (because you pressed the eject button, the drive tray happily zooms out for you..) Then you must either hit the reset button to reboot again and suck in the drive tray, or hit the eject button one more time to suck in the drive tray.
It's not that difficult, and makes perfect sense. PS2 didn't want you to physically turn the unit off; possible damage to drive tray if it's left open and someone comes by and gives it a good whack.
If they're going to go to the point of doing a credit check to see if you've got good credit (i.e. a good payment history), why in the hell wouldn't they REPORT whether you're paying on time or not?
I guess that makes too much sense.
(I've been using that phrase A LOT at work lately...)
You know, for the first month or two, I myself thought it was pretty retarded to put the power switch on the back of the unit.
Until one day I held the reset button in longer than normal. *blink* unit turns off, sucks drive in (sleep mode)...
Ahhh. Much nicer than reaching around to the back.
And yes, it makes sense to suck the drive tray in. It's turning off for gods sake - you don't just leave your computer CD-ROM tray sticking out as you tell it to power down, do you?:) jeeesh.
They're not looking for you to go into debt, they're looking for a payment history...
Friend of mine only has a school loan. Probably to the tune of 50$ a month, and rented an apartment. He decided to buy a house, and was able to get a loan, although probably at a higher rate than most others...
Why?
Well, on that 50$/mo school loan payment, he'd "forget" and pay it when they called him... nevermind at that point he'd pay 4-5 months at a time, but with all of the late dings on his report, it did hurt him.
My point is this. Get some credit, but DONT ABUSE IT. I don't have to tell you that though, because you don't even use credit at this point. But, if at some point you do want credit (in the form of a loan for a house mebby) then you will want a good verifiable payment history.
I have to agree with you about the electric bill. There is no reason for a credit check there - just kill it if the person gets behind. Pretty easy for me to see a solution to.
Bought Soul Calibur for the DC. Got myself pretty good at Kilik - long weapon range, and deadly combos....
Have a friend that enjoys playing as well, but not as much skill to his Kilik fighting as I. So one night we decide to mix up a bunch of Tanqueray (I know the spelling is fucked up) no. 10 and tonic.
By the middle of the night, we were both so messed up.... he was just mashing buttons WITH HIS EYES CLOSED kicking my ass all over the place.
I was trying my hardest, but when drunk and laughing like crazy, it's hard to keep skill in check...
Got a friend (we're in a UT2k4 assault clan) who got banned from the game because of a NAME.
Someone reported that he was botting (which, btw, is forbidden on the ladder we're in, and we STICK to it...) Problem being, he changed his name to {rto}leet_aimbot just to mess with their heads.
Epic/Atari sent a note back after some words back and forth basically stating to watch what you name your character.... apparently, you shouldn't use the words AIM or BOT in your character if someone suspects you of cheating.
Me, I thought it was funny.
Of course, I've been banned from a server just for making a mockery of the people on the server as well.
My company is currently trying to work towards a whole-house RFID setup (we sell consumer products.)
Problems we've had (in talking with the engineers):
1. Our product is in metal containers (within cardboard). Bad for RFID. 2. Placement is CRITICAL. Especially in a plant environment, you need to know where the RFID tag is so you can read and write it quickly; in addition to minimizing #3 3. Outside RF. We've had instances to where in a test lab, we can read and write and verify the write within 80ms, as a box is cruising by on the conveyor. Once we transition to the plant, however, it gets a little more shaky, as you have less control over where the conveyor motor is, more flourescent lights, and oh yea, there's still those damn metal cans.
RFID has a long way to go from what I've been told by our engineers. It's not as dead simple as you might think -- of course, for handheld scanners though, which require human intervention - may be 10 times easier since humans can modify the environment to see fit on the fly.
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In this day and age, the word "ant" would probably offend some people.
Sorry if I offended anyone in the production of this post.
So what you're trying to say is that you'd look for mature and functional applications, but this usually has nothing to do with the screenshot... so you're saying you don't know what you're looking for in a screenshot?
I'm lost.
Question:
What kind of resolution do you run the games at? If native, are you running any FPS games?
That's my only holdback about a monitor of this type. It may be nice, but if I can't get 50+ frames per second on UT2004, there's no point for me.
Oh yea, I'm only running a 6600GT at that, so I'm sure I couldn't run this monitor native and play ut.
Is it just me that kind of twinges every time you see "Nintendo offering Sega" on their new console?
It just doesn't feel right!!!
You actually nailed another point as well.
Most people's headphones are 10-100x better than their home stereo speakers. This lack of coloration and distortion also enables you to turn the music up louder without feeling the onset of pain.
Listening to music on my crappy yamaha speakers (don't laugh plz) can get painful... but putting on the Sennheisers (HD457's) at work is a totally different experience, and while I can tell the music can be louder with the Senns without distortion, it's easier to push beyond the limits with the cans.
Shit, use something stupid like the last 4 of your best friend's phone number back where you grew up. I don't think your kids would know that.
Something somewhat obscure, but burned into memory. At least to me.
And stay away from my luggage.
"Why spend Billions when you can spend... Millions?"
Back on topic, I concur. My company does the same.
These guys need some torrents...
4.1kb/sec download for the trailer... ugh.... oh well, I'll wait like I did in the modem days....
*twitch*
I've got it!
:)
It's JimBob, isn't it?
But (and it's a big butt)
:)
Let me guess:
You like big "butts" and you cannot lie.
Nice slip
Does that mean that Ballmer is out?
Several house fires, one arson, buglary...
Let me know where you live so I don't move there!!!
Didn't you ever hear the phrase "Always give 110%"?
That's what his processors do. They go to 110...
Doesn't the M-Audio card also have ultra-low-latency drivers?
That's probably why it's spiking your CPU - it's guaranteeing itself some regular interval of time with your CPU so it doesn't skip a beat, so to speak.
Same goes for music. People start to think that the (insert decade here)'s were the best for music
What's funny about that comment is the fact that no one I know would ever say that about music from the 80's.
But they (myself included) sure do know alot about it.... and even listen to it on a regular basis.....
If you think Ninja Gaiden(NES) was a port of Ninja Gaiden(Arcade), I think you better go back and look at both versions...
While the name stayed the same, I can hardly call the NES version a port of the Arcade version... just a nitpick tho...
Well, shit.
Better return my Hauppauge pvr-500... cause it doesn't fall into your x50 line...
Anyways, yes, another vote for the PVR hardware-encoding MPEG2 cards....
Now, let's get cheap MPEG4 cards!!!
You didn't properly specify, however.
Would you hire someone who possibly used drugs >1 year ago, recreationally? Would it take 5 years?
The only reason I would ask is that I know of people (potheads) that smoke regularly, and I also know of people that have not touched the stuff in years.
Drug use in the workplace is a no no in my book, however. That'd be just as bad as sleeping while on the job....
OK, it's worse...
The "power" button on the front of the PS2 is 2 things:
1. If the unit is in "standby", pressing the button brings out of standby and boots.
2. If the unit is "in use" and the button is tapped, it acts as a full-reset button for the system. This causes the system to reboot, and hence drags the tray in so that it can boot whatever is in the tray.
3. If the unit is "in use" and the button is pressed >2 secs(?), it places the unit in standby, after ensuring the drive tray is "put away". This way it doesn't stick out for others to mess with.... In addition, the LED on the front of said button changes to RED to indicate standby.
You can also wake the unit by hitting the drive-eject button. Will cause the machine to boot, but not suck the drive tray in (because you pressed the eject button, the drive tray happily zooms out for you..) Then you must either hit the reset button to reboot again and suck in the drive tray, or hit the eject button one more time to suck in the drive tray.
It's not that difficult, and makes perfect sense. PS2 didn't want you to physically turn the unit off; possible damage to drive tray if it's left open and someone comes by and gives it a good whack.
Actually, you bring up a very very valid point.
If they're going to go to the point of doing a credit check to see if you've got good credit (i.e. a good payment history), why in the hell wouldn't they REPORT whether you're paying on time or not?
I guess that makes too much sense.
(I've been using that phrase A LOT at work lately...)
You know, for the first month or two, I myself thought it was pretty retarded to put the power switch on the back of the unit.
:) jeeesh.
Until one day I held the reset button in longer than normal. *blink* unit turns off, sucks drive in (sleep mode)...
Ahhh. Much nicer than reaching around to the back.
And yes, it makes sense to suck the drive tray in. It's turning off for gods sake - you don't just leave your computer CD-ROM tray sticking out as you tell it to power down, do you?
They're not looking for you to go into debt, they're looking for a payment history...
Friend of mine only has a school loan. Probably to the tune of 50$ a month, and rented an apartment. He decided to buy a house, and was able to get a loan, although probably at a higher rate than most others...
Why?
Well, on that 50$/mo school loan payment, he'd "forget" and pay it when they called him... nevermind at that point he'd pay 4-5 months at a time, but with all of the late dings on his report, it did hurt him.
My point is this. Get some credit, but DONT ABUSE IT. I don't have to tell you that though, because you don't even use credit at this point. But, if at some point you do want credit (in the form of a loan for a house mebby) then you will want a good verifiable payment history.
I have to agree with you about the electric bill. There is no reason for a credit check there - just kill it if the person gets behind. Pretty easy for me to see a solution to.
Bought Soul Calibur for the DC. Got myself pretty good at Kilik - long weapon range, and deadly combos....
Have a friend that enjoys playing as well, but not as much skill to his Kilik fighting as I. So one night we decide to mix up a bunch of Tanqueray (I know the spelling is fucked up) no. 10 and tonic.
By the middle of the night, we were both so messed up.... he was just mashing buttons WITH HIS EYES CLOSED kicking my ass all over the place.
I was trying my hardest, but when drunk and laughing like crazy, it's hard to keep skill in check...
Got a friend (we're in a UT2k4 assault clan) who got banned from the game because of a NAME.
Someone reported that he was botting (which, btw, is forbidden on the ladder we're in, and we STICK to it...) Problem being, he changed his name to {rto}leet_aimbot just to mess with their heads.
Epic/Atari sent a note back after some words back and forth basically stating to watch what you name your character.... apparently, you shouldn't use the words AIM or BOT in your character if someone suspects you of cheating.
Me, I thought it was funny.
Of course, I've been banned from a server just for making a mockery of the people on the server as well.
My company is currently trying to work towards a whole-house RFID setup (we sell consumer products.)
Problems we've had (in talking with the engineers):
1. Our product is in metal containers (within cardboard). Bad for RFID.
2. Placement is CRITICAL. Especially in a plant environment, you need to know where the RFID tag is so you can read and write it quickly; in addition to minimizing #3
3. Outside RF. We've had instances to where in a test lab, we can read and write and verify the write within 80ms, as a box is cruising by on the conveyor. Once we transition to the plant, however, it gets a little more shaky, as you have less control over where the conveyor motor is, more flourescent lights, and oh yea, there's still those damn metal cans.
RFID has a long way to go from what I've been told by our engineers. It's not as dead simple as you might think -- of course, for handheld scanners though, which require human intervention - may be 10 times easier since humans can modify the environment to see fit on the fly.