A month or two back I had to use Word for something or other. As usual Clippy appeared. I finished doing what I was doing and closed Word. For some odd reason Clippy decided it was high time he 'broke free' from Word ("I hate this place, this zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell...... I must get out of here" maybe?)
Anyway, after Word had closed, Clippy remained on my desktop. He wasn't giving advice, telling me he thinks I SHOULD type a letter, offering crack, etc. He was just stood there, occasionally bouncing, changing shape, blinking, etc.
Quite frankly, it disturbed me. Now I don't know whether this was a 'feature' but he sure as hell wouldn't fuck off. In the end I had to reboot, thus cutting short Clippy's break for freedom.
"Half Life 2 will suck at low detail settings, low resolution and on your crap hardware."
"It's not about graphics, it's about gameplay."
"Why are you raving on about Vice City so much? It's ooooold.... it's been out on PS2 since last year.. you could have been playing it already, bug free and with a nice controller"
"Yeah... but I get to play it at 1900x1600 (insert other stupidly high resolution) and full detail. The graphics will look so much superior"
This is typical conversation between gamers. I've come to the conclusion, that if someone doesn't own something, then it sucks... until they get their own.. then it's the best thing since the wheel.
Incidently... play Vice City at stupidly high resolution is all very well.. but it sucks ass playing on your 17" monitor compared to 32"+ (or whatever) TV.
What us English need is an ingenious businessman to come up with a plan to turn the Country around, then we just start building in the 'new south' and it evens everything out.
I use GameFAQ quite a bit, I always found it very helpful but when super-hyper-global-mega-corp's tend to buy these places up, it's not always for the best. CNET obviously know this is a popular site and there's money to be gained, otherwise they wouldn't have bought it. If they feel they can mnake a profit from it, it'll come at some loss to us.
Incidently, I was kind of annoyed to see you had to pay for IGN's content. I was looking at MGS3 screenshots and after the 5th or so was told to see more I'd need to subscribe. What was highly amusing was that I discovered deleting the IGN cookie reset the counter and I was free to browse again. wash, rinse, repeat.
I disagree here. I have an XP2100 Tbred b that I paid £70 for. It's currently running at 2.2GHz (13*170fsb). It's at 1.65v and Prime95 runs stable. I have an SLK800 with AS3 and a Thermaltake Smart Fan 2 (Adjust from 1300rpm -silent to 4800rpm - Jet Engine) I usually have the fan set to around 2000rpm. My temps are about 40c idle and 46c load. There are 4 other case fans but are all silent Papst fans and controlled by a fan controller. My Ti4400 has a Zalman Heatpipe cooler.
With all the fans off and the HSF at 2000rpm my machine is virtually silent with the exception of a fairly quiet fan in my Enermax PSU. Temps may reach 50c on a hot day which is where the fan controller comes into play, but even with the 4 Papst fans on, it's still a lot quiter than other coputers I come across.
If my motherboard was an nforce (instead of the crappy VIA KT333 I have) then I'd probably reach 2.4GHz.
As for safe, if the CPU temp exceeds 60c, the computer shuts down. If the fan fails, the computer shuts down.
So is overclocking dumb? Well I wouldn't say so, a 500MHz - 700MHz increase is definitely noticeable and more value for money compared to the more expensive AMD chips that barely come close to these speeds and don't overclock that well. You don't necessarily have a computer that sounds like a helicopter either, you just have to invest in some decent hardware. The Papst fans weren't too expensive, neither was the Zalman for the gfx, the SLK800 is around £40 but it's a great heatsink and I'm sure it'll last fine for a while yet.
For those that like numbers, the Hexus server is a dual xeon with a few Gb RAM and SCSI disks. Or at least it was, you heartless people have killed it. Dave won't be happy.
The problem is the clone cartridges don't produce anywhere near the same sort of quality as the Epson cartridges. I don't mind the company buying original Epsons (although it would be nice if they were cheaper), as I said, the problem comes with recycling. Many places will recycle old cartridges but these places exclude Epson. So what option does that leave? Throwing them out in the trash? I'd rather not do that so right now they're building up in a storeroom. Hopefully in the near future somewhere will start to recycle Epson cartridges.
These chips really piss me off, we have a fair few Epson's in our office and a box with around 50-60 empty Epson cartridges. A lot of places offer money for empty inkjet cartridges, maybe £2-£3, except all these places won't accept Epson cartridges. Why? Because of the chips. At the moment they're just building up in a corner because I'd really like to get them recycled and hate to think of environmental damage that may be caused. We go through about 8 Epson cartridges a week, unfortunately Epson printers seem to produce the best quality so I don't think a change in printers is likely.
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You didn't think of that off the top of your head. You ripped it from some site with "50 Reasons Why LOTR Sucked"
And it's not even meant to be taken seriously. It was a joke.
The level of stupidness on that site could only mean it's meant as a joke and not to be taken seriously.
One of the points is (or along the lines of this);
"We see the hobbits asleep in their beds and stabbed with swords by the wraiths (?) yet in the next scene they're all perfectly okay"
We all know they weren't even in the same building during that scene.
oops, sorry, my bad. You're right. Ok, why did my original post get modded flamebait? I figured Braindead was one of those little known 'cult' films so those who've seen it would instantly start to envision LOTR crossed with Brain Dead:)
If he'd had his own way then there'd be rat monkey's running about all over the place, various characters would have flip top heads and Frodo's weapon of choice would be a lawnmower. Damn right Jackson doesn't call it the 'Driector's Cut'.
*Those who know of Jackson's previous work will know exactly what I'm waffling about.
Wouldn't it be simple to take a snap shot and send it to her cell phone? You'd get a confirmation right away. Think convenience... What if you get in a confrontation, accident, etc and want to take a quick picture? Hey this might enable police to find your killer if you get a chance to take a snapshot
I agree, that would be helpful. The problem, here in the UK anyway, is that's it just far too expensive to use these services. This causes a knock on effect. The provider brings out a service (WAP for example), it's expensive so only a handful of people use it, provider thinks no one is interested so brings out another service (GPRS). New service is even more expensive and so the same thing happens. No one bothers to use it because of the cost, provider thinks it's useless again and roll out something else (MMS). Now MMS is even more expensive, ridiculously expensive from what I've seen (just looked but couldn't get a price, although it's daft money).
I'd love to be able to use GPRS, bring the price down and I'll put it to use. Until then, continue bringing out your new services and gimmicks and I'll continue to watch them fail.
And as for getting a snapshot of your killer, you're assuming they didn't kill you for your phone in the first place.
I once had a Seagate die on me for no reason whatsoever, boot sector got buggered, Windows was a pain to boot, and eventually, after replacing, it wasn't even usuable to just store things on. Sure, you could copy data to it, it was another thing if you wanted to copy that data back again, or open it.
there was also a computer in our office and one night, as we were getting ready to go, someone could smell burning. Upon investigation we discovered it was coming from the computer. We turned it off, left for the night and I examined it in the morning. I couldn't see the problem, but after removing the Hard Drive, a Quantum Fireball, and looking underneath I was shocked to see that one of the chips on the controller had, well, how do i put it, set on fire? There was a big scorch mark from the centre of the chip, and then a long line of burning across to the edge of the chip and then onto the pcb. I contacted Maxtor (they bought Qauntum, in case you're unaware) and they wouldn't do anything with it and they pointed me in the direction of a company who would rescue the data if I so wished. After finding out the price, I declined. If I remember correctly, Maxtor was aware of this problem with this drive and this disturbed me a little. If we'd left a little earlier, maybe that computer would have gone up in flames and taken the entire office with it.
I now own a Western Digital in my own computer, I'm happy with it but Hard Drives are probably the single most important part of a computer in terms of time, effort, work, etc. Hard Drive warranties should be 3 years minimum, these companies know damn well that they'll last 12 months fine (most times), it's when you get to the 2 year - 3 year period you're drive is likely to fail.
As Hard Drives get bigger, and now that the warranty is reduced, what options of backup are there that are simple and cost effective? I want to be able to put an identical drive in a machine and set it to mirror Drive A every night at a certain time. Can RAID do this? (Sorry, new to this whole RAID thing). From what I have read before on/. RAID is not really a great option for backup.
I had the chance of using a 7650 and wasn't overly impressed. Cheap ass camera's incorporated into phones are just an excuse to charge stupid money for their latest mobile.
What annoys me mostly about the whole mobile phone thing is the way new technology comes along and is thrown out the window before it even comes into use.
Let's see, there was WAP. Slow, expensive, not around that long before GPRS came about. GPRS has been around for what? Just over a year? Again, too expensive to become mainstream and what happens now? We have Java and MMS. MMS is even more expensive than previous offerings and my guess is, before we get any chance to make use of it it will have been replaced by bluetooth and 3G in the next year or so.
If they lowered the price of these services to a reasonable level, then maybe we'd actually get some use out of them, maybe my girlfriend would actually be able to use mobile internet through the Nokia 8310 I bought her.
My ex-girlfriend is a redhead. Things were fine till about the 2nd year we'd been together, then she turned into some sort of evil witch demon thing. After many arguments and fights it all ended when she cheated on me with my best friend.
If I'd done what I wished I'd done, no amount of anesthesia would have alleviated her pain.
Stanley Matthews [bbc.co.uk], Tom Finney [pnefc.net] and Nobby Stiles [manutdzone.com] and of course the club in question Preston North End [pnefc.net]
Surely you mean Preston Nob End?;)
Why are W&G so popular anyway? Is it purely because of the stop motion animation? Would they have acheived the same popularity if they'd used CGI?
I said this before about the whole Bleem thing, I'll say it again, ironic how a company who that produces god knows how many devices for piracy (CD writers, DVD writers, camcorders, VHS recorders, mini disc recorders, tape recorders, etc) should be the ones complaining about piracy.
I'm surprised no one else has commented on how expensive this car is considering that Romero is the second owner. There are a lot more nicer cars you can buy for new at this price.
I don't understand the logic of some of you people. I've seen endless "bring back Indy", "when's Indy IV coming out", "we want another Indy film" posts and now they've announced a new film you all start ranting "money-grabbers", "they're trying to flog a dead horse", etc, etc, etc. Okay, Ford's old, they'll probably do everything in CGI (hell, they could even do a CGI Ford) and the film may or may not suck. Who knows, maybe Spielberg cab surprise us.
How about an airship like the one in Live and Let Die? I think that was the movie, where Christopher Walken was the bad guy? Anyway, ya know, you could drop people out of it from great heights at the push of a button. Anyway, on a more serious note I remember the first time I saw one of these airship things. I was in the back yard, must have been about 6 and I heard a very loud drone. I looked up and this huge airship flew over, it couldn't have been that high up, maybe 200-300feet (there is an airport a mile or so away from my house). I was actually quite scared, it appeared huge and I ran in to get my dad but by the time he'd got up off his arse it was long gone.
Why is it all over every newspaper I read right now, and all over the radio it's going on about this Code Red worm that's going to destroy the internet yet theres absolutely nothing about it on/.? I guess it's nothig to worry about huh?
It seems Lucas has been sniffing the CGI fumes too much, he's addicted to it like some crack fiend. Let's just hope he doesn't come up with the idea of a CGI Indy (what with Ford being all old and that). I can see it now:
Spielberg: It doesn't mater Harrison is so old... Lucas: You will use a CGI Indy Spielberg: We will use a CGI Indy Lucas: You can begin filming now Spielberg: I'll begin filming now
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A month or two back I had to use Word for something or other. As usual Clippy appeared. I finished doing what I was doing and closed Word. For some odd reason Clippy decided it was high time he 'broke free' from Word ("I hate this place, this zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell...... I must get out of here" maybe?)
Anyway, after Word had closed, Clippy remained on my desktop. He wasn't giving advice, telling me he thinks I SHOULD type a letter, offering crack, etc. He was just stood there, occasionally bouncing, changing shape, blinking, etc.
Quite frankly, it disturbed me. Now I don't know whether this was a 'feature' but he sure as hell wouldn't fuck off. In the end I had to reboot, thus cutting short Clippy's break for freedom.
You know, gamers are such hypocrits.
"Half Life 2 will suck at low detail settings, low resolution and on your crap hardware."
"It's not about graphics, it's about gameplay."
"Why are you raving on about Vice City so much? It's ooooold.... it's been out on PS2 since last year.. you could have been playing it already, bug free and with a nice controller"
"Yeah... but I get to play it at 1900x1600 (insert other stupidly high resolution) and full detail. The graphics will look so much superior"
This is typical conversation between gamers. I've come to the conclusion, that if someone doesn't own something, then it sucks... until they get their own.. then it's the best thing since the wheel.
Incidently... play Vice City at stupidly high resolution is all very well.. but it sucks ass playing on your 17" monitor compared to 32"+ (or whatever) TV.
What us English need is an ingenious businessman to come up with a plan to turn the Country around, then we just start building in the 'new south' and it evens everything out.
Get rid of the fan??!??! Are you insane??? My X-Box produces so much damned heat my 2.2GHz Athlon is jealous.
I use GameFAQ quite a bit, I always found it very helpful but when super-hyper-global-mega-corp's tend to buy these places up, it's not always for the best. CNET obviously know this is a popular site and there's money to be gained, otherwise they wouldn't have bought it. If they feel they can mnake a profit from it, it'll come at some loss to us.
Incidently, I was kind of annoyed to see you had to pay for IGN's content. I was looking at MGS3 screenshots and after the 5th or so was told to see more I'd need to subscribe. What was highly amusing was that I discovered deleting the IGN cookie reset the counter and I was free to browse again. wash, rinse, repeat.
I disagree here. I have an XP2100 Tbred b that I paid £70 for. It's currently running at 2.2GHz (13*170fsb). It's at 1.65v and Prime95 runs stable. I have an SLK800 with AS3 and a Thermaltake Smart Fan 2 (Adjust from 1300rpm -silent to 4800rpm - Jet Engine) I usually have the fan set to around 2000rpm. My temps are about 40c idle and 46c load. There are 4 other case fans but are all silent Papst fans and controlled by a fan controller. My Ti4400 has a Zalman Heatpipe cooler.
With all the fans off and the HSF at 2000rpm my machine is virtually silent with the exception of a fairly quiet fan in my Enermax PSU. Temps may reach 50c on a hot day which is where the fan controller comes into play, but even with the 4 Papst fans on, it's still a lot quiter than other coputers I come across.
If my motherboard was an nforce (instead of the crappy VIA KT333 I have) then I'd probably reach 2.4GHz.
As for safe, if the CPU temp exceeds 60c, the computer shuts down. If the fan fails, the computer shuts down.
So is overclocking dumb? Well I wouldn't say so, a 500MHz - 700MHz increase is definitely noticeable and more value for money compared to the more expensive AMD chips that barely come close to these speeds and don't overclock that well. You don't necessarily have a computer that sounds like a helicopter either, you just have to invest in some decent hardware. The Papst fans weren't too expensive, neither was the Zalman for the gfx, the SLK800 is around £40 but it's a great heatsink and I'm sure it'll last fine for a while yet.
For those that like numbers, the Hexus server is a dual xeon with a few Gb RAM and SCSI disks. Or at least it was, you heartless people have killed it. Dave won't be happy.
The problem is the clone cartridges don't produce anywhere near the same sort of quality as the Epson cartridges. I don't mind the company buying original Epsons (although it would be nice if they were cheaper), as I said, the problem comes with recycling. Many places will recycle old cartridges but these places exclude Epson. So what option does that leave? Throwing them out in the trash? I'd rather not do that so right now they're building up in a storeroom. Hopefully in the near future somewhere will start to recycle Epson cartridges.
These chips really piss me off, we have a fair few Epson's in our office and a box with around 50-60 empty Epson cartridges. A lot of places offer money for empty inkjet cartridges, maybe £2-£3, except all these places won't accept Epson cartridges. Why? Because of the chips. At the moment they're just building up in a corner because I'd really like to get them recycled and hate to think of environmental damage that may be caused. We go through about 8 Epson cartridges a week, unfortunately Epson printers seem to produce the best quality so I don't think a change in printers is likely.
You didn't think of that off the top of your head. You ripped it from some site with "50 Reasons Why LOTR Sucked"
And it's not even meant to be taken seriously. It was a joke.
The level of stupidness on that site could only mean it's meant as a joke and not to be taken seriously.
One of the points is (or along the lines of this);
"We see the hobbits asleep in their beds and stabbed with swords by the wraiths (?) yet in the next scene they're all perfectly okay"
We all know they weren't even in the same building during that scene.
oops, sorry, my bad. You're right. Ok, why did my original post get modded flamebait? I figured Braindead was one of those little known 'cult' films so those who've seen it would instantly start to envision LOTR crossed with Brain Dead :)
Why did this get modded to Flamebait? It was just a reference to Jackson's Brain Dead. sheesh.
Of course Jackson isn't happy.
If he'd had his own way then there'd be rat monkey's running about all over the place, various characters would have flip top heads and Frodo's weapon of choice would be a lawnmower. Damn right Jackson doesn't call it the 'Driector's Cut'.
*Those who know of Jackson's previous work will know exactly what I'm waffling about.
I agree, that would be helpful. The problem, here in the UK anyway, is that's it just far too expensive to use these services. This causes a knock on effect. The provider brings out a service (WAP for example), it's expensive so only a handful of people use it, provider thinks no one is interested so brings out another service (GPRS). New service is even more expensive and so the same thing happens. No one bothers to use it because of the cost, provider thinks it's useless again and roll out something else (MMS). Now MMS is even more expensive, ridiculously expensive from what I've seen (just looked but couldn't get a price, although it's daft money).
I'd love to be able to use GPRS, bring the price down and I'll put it to use. Until then, continue bringing out your new services and gimmicks and I'll continue to watch them fail.
And as for getting a snapshot of your killer, you're assuming they didn't kill you for your phone in the first place.
I once had a Seagate die on me for no reason whatsoever, boot sector got buggered, Windows was a pain to boot, and eventually, after replacing, it wasn't even usuable to just store things on. Sure, you could copy data to it, it was another thing if you wanted to copy that data back again, or open it.
/. RAID is not really a great option for backup.
there was also a computer in our office and one night, as we were getting ready to go, someone could smell burning. Upon investigation we discovered it was coming from the computer. We turned it off, left for the night and I examined it in the morning. I couldn't see the problem, but after removing the Hard Drive, a Quantum Fireball, and looking underneath I was shocked to see that one of the chips on the controller had, well, how do i put it, set on fire? There was a big scorch mark from the centre of the chip, and then a long line of burning across to the edge of the chip and then onto the pcb. I contacted Maxtor (they bought Qauntum, in case you're unaware) and they wouldn't do anything with it and they pointed me in the direction of a company who would rescue the data if I so wished. After finding out the price, I declined. If I remember correctly, Maxtor was aware of this problem with this drive and this disturbed me a little. If we'd left a little earlier, maybe that computer would have gone up in flames and taken the entire office with it.
I now own a Western Digital in my own computer, I'm happy with it but Hard Drives are probably the single most important part of a computer in terms of time, effort, work, etc. Hard Drive warranties should be 3 years minimum, these companies know damn well that they'll last 12 months fine (most times), it's when you get to the 2 year - 3 year period you're drive is likely to fail.
As Hard Drives get bigger, and now that the warranty is reduced, what options of backup are there that are simple and cost effective? I want to be able to put an identical drive in a machine and set it to mirror Drive A every night at a certain time. Can RAID do this? (Sorry, new to this whole RAID thing). From what I have read before on
I had the chance of using a 7650 and wasn't overly impressed. Cheap ass camera's incorporated into phones are just an excuse to charge stupid money for their latest mobile.
What annoys me mostly about the whole mobile phone thing is the way new technology comes along and is thrown out the window before it even comes into use.
Let's see, there was WAP. Slow, expensive, not around that long before GPRS came about. GPRS has been around for what? Just over a year? Again, too expensive to become mainstream and what happens now? We have Java and MMS. MMS is even more expensive than previous offerings and my guess is, before we get any chance to make use of it it will have been replaced by bluetooth and 3G in the next year or so.
If they lowered the price of these services to a reasonable level, then maybe we'd actually get some use out of them, maybe my girlfriend would actually be able to use mobile internet through the Nokia 8310 I bought her.
My ex-girlfriend is a redhead. Things were fine till about the 2nd year we'd been together, then she turned into some sort of evil witch demon thing. After many arguments and fights it all ended when she cheated on me with my best friend.
If I'd done what I wished I'd done, no amount of anesthesia would have alleviated her pain.
Avoid redheads.... they're evil!!!
Surely you mean Preston Nob End?
Why are W&G so popular anyway? Is it purely because of the stop motion animation? Would they have acheived the same popularity if they'd used CGI?
Unfortunately I just didn't see the attraction.
I said this before about the whole Bleem thing, I'll say it again, ironic how a company who that produces god knows how many devices for piracy (CD writers, DVD writers, camcorders, VHS recorders, mini disc recorders, tape recorders, etc) should be the ones complaining about piracy.
I'm surprised no one else has commented on how expensive this car is considering that Romero is the second owner. There are a lot more nicer cars you can buy for new at this price.
I don't understand the logic of some of you people. I've seen endless "bring back Indy", "when's Indy IV coming out", "we want another Indy film" posts and now they've announced a new film you all start ranting "money-grabbers", "they're trying to flog a dead horse", etc, etc, etc. Okay, Ford's old, they'll probably do everything in CGI (hell, they could even do a CGI Ford) and the film may or may not suck. Who knows, maybe Spielberg cab surprise us.
How about an airship like the one in Live and Let Die? I think that was the movie, where Christopher Walken was the bad guy? Anyway, ya know, you could drop people out of it from great heights at the push of a button. Anyway, on a more serious note I remember the first time I saw one of these airship things. I was in the back yard, must have been about 6 and I heard a very loud drone. I looked up and this huge airship flew over, it couldn't have been that high up, maybe 200-300feet (there is an airport a mile or so away from my house). I was actually quite scared, it appeared huge and I ran in to get my dad but by the time he'd got up off his arse it was long gone.
*sigh* someone should patent First Post
Why is it all over every newspaper I read right now, and all over the radio it's going on about this Code Red worm that's going to destroy the internet yet theres absolutely nothing about it on /.? I guess it's nothig to worry about huh?
It seems Lucas has been sniffing the CGI fumes too much, he's addicted to it like some crack fiend. Let's just hope he doesn't come up with the idea of a CGI Indy (what with Ford being all old and that). I can see it now:
Spielberg: It doesn't mater Harrison is so old...
Lucas: You will use a CGI Indy
Spielberg: We will use a CGI Indy
Lucas: You can begin filming now
Spielberg: I'll begin filming now