I was looking for a new state to settle down and West Virginia's wireless coverage maps looked like that nighttime photo of North Korea. I took that to be representative of their communications infrastructure and eliminated WV from my list.
You're in the lowest-cost, lowest-responsibility living arrangement available in the first world short of living in your mom's basement. If you want privacy and quiet, you'll have to pay more or find a sugar daddy. So finish school and get a job where you can afford to live among a higher class of people. Climb the ladder and make more money and move into better accommodations as your income increases. That's how life works.
Router's at "Time: 14:08:44 up 335 days, 13:29, load average: 037,0.11,0.02". That's the best I've got. Longest running computer is "1:46pm up 280 days, 21:01, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00". Tho it is a roughly 15 year old machine and it's had longer runs that the current run, I doubt it's broken a thousand days straight. But 335 and 280 days is pretty good for equipment that's not plugged into a UPS.
This kind of thing is one of the reasons I made that Marge Simpson murmur when my last company's head of IT declared that we were Googleizing. Part of Google's pitch is to list the huge number of apps and tools they have available. Trouble is, you can deeply integrate those apps into your company's procedures, then Google decides to clean house and discontinue something that's become critical to your company and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Palm's handwriting innovation wasn't technological. It was psychological. They managed to convince consumers that it was cool and hip to learn to write in a way that the device could interpret. That made the technical aspect much more manageable.
That's one of the reasons the Newton bombed. Apple tried to build a system that could interpret natural writing but that's an incredibly difficult thing when writing styles are as unique as fingerprints. I didn't even bother waiting to get my hands on a demo unit at the launch because people were walking away complaining that it was impossible to get the Newton to accurately recognize anything written on it. That had been the Really Big Thing Killer Feature and it was underwhelming. So I'm supposed to walk this thing through learning my writing? Ain't nobody got time for that! Somehow, Palm convinced people to learn how to write all over again. I tip my hat to their memory.
"Why jerk my neck around like a goon when Tyranno-Vision decides what I should look at?"
Well, that's not an apples to apples comparison but peripheral vision covers it. In a racing game, I can see who's moving up on my side. In a shooter, it's like taking off blinders. Same reasons you like it for flight simulators.
I don't know about AMD but nvidia allows the addition of a non-surround 4th monitor for your porn addiction. I haven't tried it because I don't have the space for another monitor.
That's what hybrids are for. I just wish we could get large hybrids in the 'doze arena. One of those 3tb "Fusion" drives would be nice in my gaming rig. It seems silly that the biggest hybrid drive I can get with a SATA interface is 750 gigs.
Last place I worked upgraded from Office 2003 in 2011. And that was mostly because some of our clients were making snarky comments about our ancient software. The absolute last thing a corporation wants is software that is constantly changing. Every minor change throws the oldsters (generally anyone 5 years younger than me and up) into a tizzy because the rote memorization they used to "learn" the old version doesn't work any more.
Reminds me of when I was a kid and I heard about this guy who, as an experiment, wore a pair of glasses that inverted what he saw. After a while (weeks, I think), his brain adjusted by flipping the image upright. When he stopped wearing the glasses, it took some time for his vision to return to normal.
I consider it the opposite of an annoyance. I don't need to keep track of DVDs to shove in the drive to play a game I've already installed. I get nearly instant purchase satisfaction. Certainly faster than driving half an hour each way to the nearest retail outlet. I can reinstall on a new machine without having to find the disc and key and without worrying about whether I have another activation left.
I really don't understand how you can find that more annoying than dealing with physical media.
Thousands of dollars, thankyouverymuch. And games don't play better or look just as good on a console. There isn't a single console on the market that actually renders HD content. (Well, maybe the WiiU. I haven't checked that one.) They upscale. They can't even do a true 1280x720 and I'm playing at a real 7680x1440. And I don't know how anyone plays FPS games with those little nub-sticks. I can use whatever control system works best for the game I'm playing. Racing wheel, joystick, flight yoke, keyboard, mouse, even a gamepad.
I'll just have to wait until they finish with all of their DLC and sell a "kitchen sink" edition for half price. Too bad, 'cause I've got a pair of 4gb GTX 680 video cards and three 2560x1440 monitors just waiting to be worked hard.
Yeah, I'm sure I'll just buy the DVD version eventually but they'd already have my money if they sold it on Steam.
Many moons ago, I started working for a company that was [cough] lax in their licensing of productivity software. They griped about how much it would cost to get their licenses in order. I got the relevant VeeP to install OpenOffice and try it for a month. He asked me for help on a couple of minor issues during that time and, at the end of the month, he said he'd been able to do everything he needed to do without ever opening the old software once. He was able to open, edit, and save every document and exchange documents within the company and with our clients and vendors with no trouble at all. "Great! So I can develop a plan to transition us to OpenOffice." "No. I just don't feel comfortable using something that doesn't cost money."
By the time I left the company, our licenses were in order and we had a new VeeP who embraced open source, free, etc. software but it was an uphill battle that shouldn't have been a battle at all.
That's a shame. I wonder how well Chrome will handle mismatched DPIs. The device has a mini displayport so they have to expect that external monitors will be connected and they'll have to have significantly lower DPIs than the built-in display. But I'm not $1300 curious.;^>
I'm curious to know how Windows 8 will run on this thing. W8 is supposed to be designed to run well on a wide variety of pixel densities. This thing's got a ton of pixels and a touchscreen. Should me a match made in heaven. It's a bit low on RAM and storage but it's enough to install and run the OS and a full suite of productivity apps.
I have a friend who's kept a journal for longer than I've been alive (well, maybe not quite that long but still a long time) and it can be very interesting hearing his take on events from the before time, uncolored by 20+ years of failing neurons.
A 24/7 video record is pretty pointless. The purpose of recording the events of your life is to record the interesting events of your life, not sitting on the pot for 20 minutes trying to squeeze out a grunter.
You ask about those Korean 2560x1440 monitors. I have three of them that I use to play games in surround mode. They're gorgeous. OMG. Zero dead/stuck pixels. (I paid an extra $20-25/monitor for that guarantee.) After I purchased mine, Microcenter started [occasionally] carrying a similar model for just a little more money. Looks like they're selling Aurias for $400 right now.
Would I use them for text-intensive work? No. The text is very small unless you use the "Make text and other items larger or smaller" feature or bump up the font size in your apps. At which point, you're kinda wasting all those extra pixels you paid for. And things tend to look kinda wonky with that feature because not all apps interact with it the same way. You can get a quality 1920x1080 monitor in that size range for half the price or less.
However, I'd go even farther (further?). For about 5 years, I used a 37" 1920x1080 panel as my main monitor. Everything is huge at normal settings. Roughly 60ppi. No eye strain. No squinting. I could lean all the way back in my chair and the text was still crystal clear. With the monitor about 3' from me, I had no "nose blockage" and could clearly see all parts of the screen without turning my head. If I were spending all day working with text, that's the way I'd go. If you've got a small desk, maybe 32".
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I was looking for a new state to settle down and West Virginia's wireless coverage maps looked like that nighttime photo of North Korea. I took that to be representative of their communications infrastructure and eliminated WV from my list.
They already have a different term. It's called image persistence. Google can help you investergate in depth.
Who the heck is modding my post "troll"? That's my advice. Earn enough money that you don't have to pack yourself into high density housing.
Get over it.
You're in the lowest-cost, lowest-responsibility living arrangement available in the first world short of living in your mom's basement. If you want privacy and quiet, you'll have to pay more or find a sugar daddy. So finish school and get a job where you can afford to live among a higher class of people. Climb the ladder and make more money and move into better accommodations as your income increases. That's how life works.
Router's at "Time: 14:08:44 up 335 days, 13:29, load average: 037,0.11,0.02". That's the best I've got. Longest running computer is "1:46pm up 280 days, 21:01, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00". Tho it is a roughly 15 year old machine and it's had longer runs that the current run, I doubt it's broken a thousand days straight. But 335 and 280 days is pretty good for equipment that's not plugged into a UPS.
This kind of thing is one of the reasons I made that Marge Simpson murmur when my last company's head of IT declared that we were Googleizing. Part of Google's pitch is to list the huge number of apps and tools they have available. Trouble is, you can deeply integrate those apps into your company's procedures, then Google decides to clean house and discontinue something that's become critical to your company and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Palm's handwriting innovation wasn't technological. It was psychological. They managed to convince consumers that it was cool and hip to learn to write in a way that the device could interpret. That made the technical aspect much more manageable.
That's one of the reasons the Newton bombed. Apple tried to build a system that could interpret natural writing but that's an incredibly difficult thing when writing styles are as unique as fingerprints. I didn't even bother waiting to get my hands on a demo unit at the launch because people were walking away complaining that it was impossible to get the Newton to accurately recognize anything written on it. That had been the Really Big Thing Killer Feature and it was underwhelming. So I'm supposed to walk this thing through learning my writing? Ain't nobody got time for that! Somehow, Palm convinced people to learn how to write all over again. I tip my hat to their memory.
Laura Dawson, the product manager for identifiers at Bowker, insists that ISBNs are relevant and won't be replaced anytime soon
When you have to insist that your product is relevant, that's a bad sign.
Poor guy will never be able to ride a saucer sled down a hill again. "...if this gets dented then my hair just ain't gonna look right."
"Why jerk my neck around like a goon when Tyranno-Vision decides what I should look at?"
Well, that's not an apples to apples comparison but peripheral vision covers it. In a racing game, I can see who's moving up on my side. In a shooter, it's like taking off blinders. Same reasons you like it for flight simulators.
I don't know about AMD but nvidia allows the addition of a non-surround 4th monitor for your porn addiction. I haven't tried it because I don't have the space for another monitor.
Dangit. Now I want to try it.
Canon fo' life, yo!
Stop it or I'll bury you alive in a box!
(I don't make change.)
That's what hybrids are for. I just wish we could get large hybrids in the 'doze arena. One of those 3tb "Fusion" drives would be nice in my gaming rig. It seems silly that the biggest hybrid drive I can get with a SATA interface is 750 gigs.
Last place I worked upgraded from Office 2003 in 2011. And that was mostly because some of our clients were making snarky comments about our ancient software. The absolute last thing a corporation wants is software that is constantly changing. Every minor change throws the oldsters (generally anyone 5 years younger than me and up) into a tizzy because the rote memorization they used to "learn" the old version doesn't work any more.
Reminds me of when I was a kid and I heard about this guy who, as an experiment, wore a pair of glasses that inverted what he saw. After a while (weeks, I think), his brain adjusted by flipping the image upright. When he stopped wearing the glasses, it took some time for his vision to return to normal.
[citation needed]
I consider it the opposite of an annoyance. I don't need to keep track of DVDs to shove in the drive to play a game I've already installed. I get nearly instant purchase satisfaction. Certainly faster than driving half an hour each way to the nearest retail outlet. I can reinstall on a new machine without having to find the disc and key and without worrying about whether I have another activation left.
I really don't understand how you can find that more annoying than dealing with physical media.
Excellent troll.
Thousands of dollars, thankyouverymuch. And games don't play better or look just as good on a console. There isn't a single console on the market that actually renders HD content. (Well, maybe the WiiU. I haven't checked that one.) They upscale. They can't even do a true 1280x720 and I'm playing at a real 7680x1440. And I don't know how anyone plays FPS games with those little nub-sticks. I can use whatever control system works best for the game I'm playing. Racing wheel, joystick, flight yoke, keyboard, mouse, even a gamepad.
I'll just have to wait until they finish with all of their DLC and sell a "kitchen sink" edition for half price. Too bad, 'cause I've got a pair of 4gb GTX 680 video cards and three 2560x1440 monitors just waiting to be worked hard.
Yeah, I'm sure I'll just buy the DVD version eventually but they'd already have my money if they sold it on Steam.
Many moons ago, I started working for a company that was [cough] lax in their licensing of productivity software. They griped about how much it would cost to get their licenses in order. I got the relevant VeeP to install OpenOffice and try it for a month. He asked me for help on a couple of minor issues during that time and, at the end of the month, he said he'd been able to do everything he needed to do without ever opening the old software once. He was able to open, edit, and save every document and exchange documents within the company and with our clients and vendors with no trouble at all. "Great! So I can develop a plan to transition us to OpenOffice." "No. I just don't feel comfortable using something that doesn't cost money."
By the time I left the company, our licenses were in order and we had a new VeeP who embraced open source, free, etc. software but it was an uphill battle that shouldn't have been a battle at all.
That's a shame. I wonder how well Chrome will handle mismatched DPIs. The device has a mini displayport so they have to expect that external monitors will be connected and they'll have to have significantly lower DPIs than the built-in display. But I'm not $1300 curious. ;^>
I'm curious to know how Windows 8 will run on this thing. W8 is supposed to be designed to run well on a wide variety of pixel densities. This thing's got a ton of pixels and a touchscreen. Should me a match made in heaven. It's a bit low on RAM and storage but it's enough to install and run the OS and a full suite of productivity apps.
I have a friend who's kept a journal for longer than I've been alive (well, maybe not quite that long but still a long time) and it can be very interesting hearing his take on events from the before time, uncolored by 20+ years of failing neurons.
A 24/7 video record is pretty pointless. The purpose of recording the events of your life is to record the interesting events of your life, not sitting on the pot for 20 minutes trying to squeeze out a grunter.
Might this decision open the door for some of them to surreptitiously access the open net?
Hahahahahaha! Yeah. Sure. Good plan if those foreigners want to get an up close and personal tour of the labor camps.
I'm just going straight to my advice.
You ask about those Korean 2560x1440 monitors. I have three of them that I use to play games in surround mode. They're gorgeous. OMG. Zero dead/stuck pixels. (I paid an extra $20-25/monitor for that guarantee.) After I purchased mine, Microcenter started [occasionally] carrying a similar model for just a little more money. Looks like they're selling Aurias for $400 right now.
Would I use them for text-intensive work? No. The text is very small unless you use the "Make text and other items larger or smaller" feature or bump up the font size in your apps. At which point, you're kinda wasting all those extra pixels you paid for. And things tend to look kinda wonky with that feature because not all apps interact with it the same way. You can get a quality 1920x1080 monitor in that size range for half the price or less.
However, I'd go even farther (further?). For about 5 years, I used a 37" 1920x1080 panel as my main monitor. Everything is huge at normal settings. Roughly 60ppi. No eye strain. No squinting. I could lean all the way back in my chair and the text was still crystal clear. With the monitor about 3' from me, I had no "nose blockage" and could clearly see all parts of the screen without turning my head. If I were spending all day working with text, that's the way I'd go. If you've got a small desk, maybe 32".